Burkina Faso: Fespaco and Eco-Citizenship: A Healthy and Clean Environment for all Festival-Goers

28 February 2007
FESPACO News (Ouagadougou)

The Ministry of environment and its various stakeholders initiated an operation called "FESPACO and eco-citizenship" whose aim is to ensure a permanent cleanliness of the various sites of FESPACO.

Some of the actions undertaken by the Ministry of environment and its stakeholders include latrines, mobile urinaries, garbage cans and the collection of plastic bags and waste for festival-goers' trash. Senior staff of this ministry want to create a healthy and clean environment for all festival-goers and to prove Ouagadougou as the clean capital. Sanitation works have been placed at the "maison du people," FESPACO's office, the "maison des jeunes" and other strategic places in town.

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