iciHaiti - Environment : Beginning of the operation «Lave figi Pòtoprens»
Saturday began a vast garbage collection campaign in Port-au-Prince named "Lave figi Pòtoprens". The day before, at the announcement of the launch of the campaign, Pierre Simon Georges, the new Minister of the Environment has launched a call for conscience and citizen participation and support from the private sector to help make the image of the capital clean, recalling that in the current state "We can not sell this image of the country outside."
In addition he affirmed that his Ministry under his authority, will make the necessary to establish Committees in the neighborhoods in order to manage waste, promote sanitation in neighborhoods. Wishing with nostalgically, the return to the tradition when in the past, families were cleaning their neighborhood.
