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Projects:
Pwojè Lari PwòpSTATUS: implemented May 2005 to July 2006 / now completed Managing the public awareness campaign for a USAID funded project run by the Pan American Development Foundation, employing 2,500 people a day to clean the streets of Port-au-Prince. NEED: Port-au-Prince was overrun with garbage. For years municipal authorities have not provided public receptacles, picked up the mounds and sometimes mountains of resulting loose garbage on every street, or provided the public with information about how to dispose of their garbage or any educational information on the importance of keeping the environment clean. This unsightly consequence is also a major public health hazard. At the same time unemployment is close to 80 percent, and the majority of the country’s 8 million residents live on less than $1 per day. RESPONSE: Yéle Haiti directs the public awareness campaign for a project that combines garbage removal with job creation in Port-au-Prince. The Creole title translates as “Project Clean Streets” and the slogan “Respekte tèt ou, netwaye peyi w” means “Respect yourself, clean your country”. Implemented by the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), the project involves an average team of 2,500 workers a day. The Yéle Haiti logo is on T-shirts worn by the workers and signs on the side of the trucks. Partners: Funding: Photo: some of the Pwojè Lari Pwòp workers cleaning the streets of Port-au-Prince and wearing their distinctive Yéle t-shirt ‘uniform’. |
