Community Clean-Up Day at Buguruni

BYC's youth together with former VSO's ICS volunteers and primary school children on the 10th of May to conduct a clean-up day at Buguruni Chama area. At least a total of 100 people, this including 75 school pupils and 25 others including the BYC's youth, former VSO ICS volunteers and primary school teachers participated in the event.
                           

Prior to the event, a two week environmental awareness sensitisation session had been conducted in the primary schools by BYC youth assisted by the ICS volunteers.

 

Multitude of pupils from the 4 primary schools

The 4 primary schools that participated in this event included Buguruni A and Hekima primary schools from Buguruni ward & Kiwalani and Kigilagila primary schools from Kiwalani ward.

High 5 for the camera!!

 

Cleaning in session

The event started at 2.00 p.m in the afternoon and thankfully it did not rain so everything went as according to plan!

Rehema Chuka, giving out gloves before the pupils embark on cleaning their community

The school pupils and the youth showed a lot of enthusiasm and the teachers of the school were very receptive to the clean up.

 

They all participated fully with vigour in unclogging the drainages and picking up the rubbish around their school compound, the market area and outside people's household.

 

 

 

Pupils picking up rubbish

 

A pupil from Buguruni A primary unclogging a drainage

In addition, BYC developed brochures with  easy waste management messages which were distributed to the community.

BYC youth unclogging the drainages

The community and people from the neighbouring households came out to watch at what the school pupils and the BYC youth were doing and they at large also praised the effort done by BYC in promoting environmental awareness in the area.

One of BYC's youth cleaning up with the students

They also acknowledged that they had been living in a dirty environment and they asked BYC to make the clean up a regular event.

A resident of the area looking on. We hope that next time they will be able to join in the activity.

The event was also graced by two representatives from the Ward office who came to give a word of encouragement for the effort done by BYC.

One of the school teachers and a representative from the Ward office

At the end of the event, BYC distributed two dustbins to each of the schools and they also also gave one to the local government. In addition, brooms and spades were also given to the teachers and pupils to aid in continous cleaning activities in their respective schools.

Juma Malole, Kiwalani's head coach and the rest of BYC youth and ICS volunteers giving out dustbins, brooms and a spade to a pupil

Juma Malole-Kiwalani's head coach giving out a dustbin and brooms to BYC's Rehema Chuka for the sake of BYC office

Rehema Chuka posing with some of the pupils

In the end a spirit of volunteerism and promotion of environmental awareness was definitely borne.

Chui- one of the ICS volunteers posing for a picture with some of the pupils

 

 

We hope that the pupils and the whole community at large will keep the fire burning.

We thank VSO and the ICS volunteers for the support especially Chui, Abraham, Rose and Rhona and BYC youth leadership for making this event successful!!

For more of these pictures, visit our facebook page- Buguruni Youth Centre