Clean-up Saturday

Garbage collection doesn’t occur in any but the main streets in Freetown. In our street there is a scattering of rubbish everywhere, and piles here and there. Since the elections last year there has been a monthly clean-up day, and no one is allowed to travel or open business till noon. Clouds of acrid smoke fill the air as garbage is burnt, but generally the event is not well supported.

One of the masters and 30 children of the street school and ourselves scoured 100 yards of our steep street for plastic rubbish and picked up 25 sacks of it. It created quite a stir in the neighbourhood, and impacted the children too, who got a lollipop each!