FESPACO News (Ouagadougou)
Rabankhi Zida
28 February 2007
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.
The ministry also sets up a big pavilion where people can discover various branches of the ministry for the safeguard of environment at "la place de la nation" and an eco-citizen stand at "la maison du people" to inform the public of environmentally related activities. Besides, young trainers give people appropriate technical information in all the sites.
A plastic bag and waste collection campaign started on the February 25 throughout the entire district of Ouagadougou and will last until the March 4. Places for plastic waste recycling have been established to solve the plastic issue. All over the sites, festival-goers appreciate the initiative of FESPACO 2007 eco-citizenship.
This initiative allows users to ease themselves with dignity.
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