PM launches comprehensive community cleanliness & awareness initiative in Capital Secretariat

Saba Yemen

15-02-2025

Sana'a - Saba:
Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Rahwi inaugurated today the cleanliness and community awareness initiative in the districts of the Capital Secretariat under the title "Welcome Ramadan, cleanliness is a faith commitment and civilized behavior" in implementation of the outcomes of the expanded consultative meeting to stimulate initiatives and support the cleanliness system in the Secretariat and the provinces.
The Prime Minister, First Deputy Prime Minister Allama Mohammed Muftah and the Mayor of the Capital, Dr. Hamoud Obad, were briefed on the work of the initiative, which was launched from Bab Al-Yemen in the old city of Sana'a, and the progress of environmental awareness for shop owners, school students and citizens on the need for concerted efforts to raise the level of cleanliness in streets and neighborhoods, remove distortions and randomness and pay attention and care for the central islands and afforestation.
During his visit to Kuwait School in Safiya district, the Prime Minister urged students and their peers in schools to demonstrate cleanliness behavior in their schools, houses , neighborhoods and actively contribute to the cleanliness campaign , its success, gave them instructions on the proper handling of various wastes and the obligation to throw them in their designated places to ensure the cleanliness of the capital and various Yemeni cities.
Al-Rahwi inspected the implementation of the campaign and the level of official and popular interaction in a number of neighborhoods and streets in the Capital Secretariat.
In a media statement following the launch, the Prime Minister explained that as part of the campaign, guidelines will be distributed to all shops that guide everyone on how to deal with waste and not throw it on the street.
Al-Rahwi pointed out that with the leadership of the Secretariat, the capital Sana'a will improve more , more in the environmental aspect and cleanliness in general, calling on citizens , the community not to throw waste or food remnants in the streets and for everyone to contribute to the cleanliness of the capital, which is his big house , everyone should work hard for its cleanliness and pride in it.
For his part, First Deputy Prime Minister Allamah Muftah thanked the workers in the cleaning sector for their efforts in improving cleaning services at the level of the Secretariat and the provinces.
Allama Muftah emphasized that cleanliness and public health is everyone's responsibility, and a country that is filled with waste will become a hotbed of epidemics, calling on those who are careless about cleanliness not to throw waste outside its designated places and to pay attention to the proper sorting of food, organic, plastic, glass and metal waste, noting that high-risk medical waste will be sorted in a designated place.
The First Deputy Prime Minister stressed the activation of laws related to cleanliness to contribute to preserving the aesthetic and civilized appearance of the capital Sana'a and the provinces, improving the performance of waste dumps and taking certain measures to improve the cleaning process so that it becomes a daily behavior for everyone.
"It is unbecoming of a human being to throw personal waste in public streets and markets, as these are scenes that harm the reputation and prestige of the Yemeni people," he said.
The Capital Secretary pointed to the importance of the community initiative for cleanliness, reflecting the Revolution Leader's directives in maintaining cleanliness, implementing the outcomes of the expanded meetings to stimulate community initiatives to participate in cleanliness campaigns, and activating the role of neighborhood elders, development knights and community committees by following up on the cleanliness work and not taking it out at unspecified times.
For his part, Undersecretary Khalid Al-Madani pointed out the importance of activating the role of offices, government agencies and civil society organizations in implementing broad community cleaning initiatives to raise the level of cleanliness and protect the environment, engage and enhance the role of the local community and active groups in preserving it and reducing the exacerbation of environmental issues.
The Cleanliness Fund and Project directors , Mohammed Sharafuddin and Ibrahim Al-Sarabi, explained that the community cleanliness initiative, in which cleanliness workers , equipment, offices, concerned authorities , a crowd of initiatives and community components participate, seeks to form community control frameworks that effectively participate in stabilizing the environmental , service conditions, and everyone cooperates in achieving sustainable cleanliness and consolidating awareness and environmental behavior in the Secretariat.
In addition, cleanliness and community awareness initiatives were launched in the streets and neighborhoods according to the work plan, with the participation of the heads of the social affairs, planning, development and services committees in the Secretariat of the Capital Secretariat, undersecretaries, local and executive leaders, environmental awareness teams, a crowd of initiatives and community committees, development and mobilization knights, neighborhood elders, social figures and citizens.
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