Rundu Clean Up Day - 12/01/12

Although sat in Newcastle I am catching up on posts about Namibia. Each phase (i.e. Rundu, Namibia and Newcastle, UK) we hold at least two Community Action Days (CAD's). One was a clean up day.

With help from the town council (providing mouth guards, gloves and two rubbish trucks) we had organised a day to pick up litter on a particularly messy road. The area was just used as a dump despite being just across the road from lots of people's homes. Sadly our Namibian counterparts had to leave the community due to issues with visas and so we were only half a team. However the day was booked and we went ahead.

I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Before	After

In the pile of rubbish we found several horrible things such as:

• mounds of used nappies
• bones of cattle
• a dead chicken
• a dead puppy

NBC TV unit came to interview us and shoot some footage too.