Over the past few weeks Albousytown residents have transformed their community’s drainage system under the government’s billion-dollar ‘Clean-up my country’ initiative and villagers are primed to take on other projects to sustain and further enhance their environment.
According to a Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) report, the community was divided into 15 blocks for better management and monitoring and the 70 workers, mostly youth, were divided into three groups to tackle the heavily silted drains.
Commenting on the startling change in the appearance of the community, Heston Bostwick echoed the view of many residents when he praised the initiative. “It is for the first time we’re really seeing back the concrete drains… only the ones who were raised here would’ve known there were concrete drains here,” Bostwick said.
Residents who were employed on the project were also pleased that workers were sourced from within the community. Employee,