Workers Remove Litter from Iraqi Streets

Defend America News ^ | Spc. Cassandra Groce

[SandRat]

Workers Remove Litter from Iraqi Streets
The street-cleaning project focuses on the busiest streets first, then moves to residential areas.
By U.S. Army Spc. Cassandra Groce 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment HAWIJA, Iraq, July 11, 2006 -- Piles of trash and litter, the scourge of many Iraqi cities, are being removed by local workers from the street and alleys of Hawija, Iraq. Sanitation has been a continual concern for Coalition Forces and the Iraqi leadership. The street-cleaning project currently cleans the busiest streets, but will soon move to residential areas. The project employs many civilians. “This was a good project because there are a lot of poor people that need jobs and this provides them with work,” said Hussein Allawy Jathel, the mayor of Habasy, one of the cities coordinating the project. Each city has approximately 20 workers as well as truck drivers and managers. The project started about a month ago. “Right now there are four cities in the project,” said Capt. Eric Canaday, B company commander, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. “We start with the larger towns, and as those are cleaned up and the funding becomes available for more cities, we’ll keep moving out to more cities.” The projects also should help combat health concerns caused by the waste in the streets. “These are the kind of projects that the city council and provincial council will have to work on by going into each city as they can and improve the sanitation,” explained Canaday.	Iraqi children work on cleaning the streets of their village, Hawija, Iraq. Military-age men were the target group for the street cleaning job, but children on summer break sought jobs too. U.S. Army photo courtesy of B Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment “They’ve identified the problem and they are going to fix it, it’s just a matter of priority in which city they get to. The project is currently funded by Coalition Forces, but will soon be handled by Iraqi government. “We hope as we leave that funding will be given over to the city council so they will continue to run this project on their own without any coalition assistance,” said Canaday.

[SandRat]

Iraqi's pitching in to improve their own lives.

[glorgau]

Less junk in which to hide IEDs.

[don-o]

I love the stories of what is going right. Thanks for this one.

[McGavin999]

Now that is cute, and it's also about time. As the cities get cleaned up, people will feel more pride and begin to keep it that way.

[sgtbono2002]

***As the cities get cleaned up, people will feel more pride and begin to keep it that way.**

Its never worked in SE Washington DC .

[Cobra64]

In other news... former residents of New Orleans continue living the good life in Houston, Dallas...

Details at 11...

[Allegra]

I love the stories of what is going right.

So much more goes right that the media won't tell you about.

That being said, it sounds like it's going to be another wild day in Baghdad. We've already heard two loud explosions.