As part of the program to clean and renovate Gicumbi town, the administration and local people of Gicumbi district are busy planting trees and flowers, forming gardens in the whole of Gicumbi town in a program called greening. Emmanuel Kayumba the health officer in this district says in this greening program, 700 araucaria trees, 2000 [...]
While residents are being sensitised on living in good environment with fresh air, fruit trees and vegetables as well make good gardens in front or behind the houses. This comes after many people think that gardens have to have grass and flowers. Using fruit trees and vegetables to make gardens is one way of fighting [...]
Some residents do not understand the importance of trash cans (poubelle) While they are put there for passersby to drop garbage in them, garbage bins in Gakenke town are like decorative pieces since they are never used. Some of the residents revealed they didn’t know the bins are for garbage for example yellow banana peelings [...]
Primary and secondary school head teachers in Nyamasheke district have been asked to ensure the maintenance of toilet sanitation in their schools. This comes to life after 2013 academic year in Rwanda is days away from starting. Toilets of some schools are marked by unpleasant smell to an extent that students remove their shirts before [...]
The City of Kigali (COK) in partnership with the National Police has launched a three-month campaign aimed at promoting sanitation and hygiene in the city. The campaign dubbed “Keep Kigali Clean and Green” kicked off on December 11 at Nyamirambo Stadium. During the three month time, different activities aimed at maintaining the hygiene and the [...]
Residents of Kigali village, Gafumba cell, Rusatira sector are complaining of bird droppings (feaces) that is putting the health of their young children at risk. Residents say herons and other birds drop their load from the trees that stand between the houses, and infants eat when playing outside the house. What worries parents with children [...]
Despite the warnings about the effect of dumping garbage on grass and human life, some residents do it complaining they have no garbage collection places. In town, cleanliness is observed but in the out skirts, garbage is dumped in undeveloped pieces of lands. Ngororero district is an example where waste is found behind some [...]
Despite the warnings about the effect of dumping garbage on grass and human life, some residents do it complaining they have no garbage collection places. In town, cleanliness is observed but in the out skirts, garbage is dumped in undeveloped pieces of lands. Ngororero district is an [...]
The police have come out to warn the public on the sneaking of polythene bags into Rwanda and vowed to take stun measures to punish the smugglers. Use of Polythene bags on Rwandan soil was burned several years ago due to the negative effects that they have on the soil and their environmental degradation [...]
In a way of encouraging cleanliness in Nyagatare town, the Nyagatare cell administrative council asked residents living close to roads to make pavements of either bricks or stones from their compounds to the road not later than 15th.June.2012. Felix Nsengiyumva The executive secretary of Nyagatare cell to Thecleancountry that , he asked residents of this cell [...]
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