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Funded
by the Afghan International Chambers of
Commerce (AICC)
In
order to create a strong, stable, prosperous,
and sovereign Afghanistan, it is essential
to build a strong foundation. Education,
sanitation and health are the most basic
elements for building a foundation.
On
Oct 3, 2003, Aid Afghanistan for Education took the initiative
to start the Prosperity Project. This project
is designed to clean the city of Kabul with
the help of the municipality. After many
meetings and discussions with the Mayor
of Kabul and the administrator of the District
#10, the work began.
This pilot project
started on Street # 5 in Quala-e-Fattullah,
where a 16 foot long pile of garbage
was collected in front of an elementary
school. Most of the school kids have
permanent scars on their beautiful faces
from mosquito bites. These mosquitoes live
and feed from the garbage.
On Oct
3, 2003 two cars and seven workers were
sent from the District # 10 to began the
work by removing the pile of garbage in
front of the school. By late afternoon
it was all taken outside of the city to
a dumpsite. The school kids were happy
to be able to play outside again.
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There
are 48 residential houses located on this street. As the workers
were shoveling the garbage onto the trucks, members of Aid
Afghanistan for Education were knocking on the doors to discuss the program
with the residents. Wooden compost boxes and two nylon
bags were distributed to the houses. We found a corner
in every resident's house for the compost box and explained
the procedure as well as encouraging them to segregate paper
product from glass, plastic and metal.
Within
two months from the start of the project,
eleven streets were cleaned, compost boxes
and nylon bags were distributed to 400 houses.
Meetings
have been held with the Ministry of Agriculture
for the collection of the compost material
to be taken to the agricultural fields every
four months.
Professors from Faculty
of Agriculture at Kabul University has agreed
to assist the program by teaching seminars
on compost and the importance of sanitation.
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