Volunteers spent 2 years cleaning up over 11,500,000 pounds of trash along Mumbai’s Versova beach in one of ‘the world’s largest beach clean-ups’, resulting in Olive Ridley turtles returning to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mumbai-beach-clean-up-turtles-2/
WRBH in New Orleans is a radio station for the blind. Each day volunteers read the local newspaper on the air, along with best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and more. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/movies_tv/article_c53e3538-0215-5887-a9a9-bb524b416393.html
India set a new world record planting over 66 million trees in 12 hours. The Madhya Pradesh state used 1.5 million volunteers to plant the saplings along the Narmada river. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theyouth.in/2019/02/05/india-breaks-guinness-world-record-plants-66-million-trees-in-just-12-hours/