Tunisia – Volunteers join environment ministry clean-up campaign

Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Language: Arabic

Duration: 00:05:04

Voice: Natural

Source: A24 Tunisia

Restriction: A24 subscribers

Date: 19/08/2022

Storyline:

Tunisian environment officials are organizing neighborhood groups across the country to join a nationwide clean-up campaign that is heralded as a sign of a new era of civic participation. 

Abd al-Salam Hamdi, a senior manager at the  Trans Tunisian Pipeline Company, told A24 “that this step will encourage all citizens to strive to clean up their surroundings within the framework of creating a new and clean republic,”

The campaign, which runs until September 4, began with civil servants from the environment ministry launching the clean-up effort in their immediate neighborhood.

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Soundbite (Leila Chikhaoui – Tunisian Minister of Environment): 

“This event or initiative is called the month of cleaning and is launched at the national level, that is, in the entire territory of the republic. It is held weekly from the fourteenth of August until the fourth of September. Teams from public and private institutions and associations participated in the event voluntarily. It concerns every adult, children, men, women, youth, as well as individuals, associations and institutions. Individuals can form teams of ten, enabling them to participate in a small race. At the end of it, we give them symbolic prizes but not related to the environment in order to increase environmental awareness.”

Soundbite (Al-Hadi Al-Shubaili, Director General of Environment and Quality of Life, Ministry of Environment):

“This initiative includes all Tunisian regions and cities with the aim of intensively involving citizens, associations and institutions to contribute to the cleanliness of their surroundings. Today, we are working in the area of ​​the Ministry of Environment, at its request, with the participation of about fifty individuals, who were divided into work teams to clean all the streets surrounding the Ministry and their institutions, to be a role model for other institutions and individuals, because we should start from our surroundings and then go to other areas.”

Soundbite (Abd al-Salam Hamdi – Director of Administrative Affairs at the Trans Tunisian Pipeline Company):

“We have responded to the call of the Ministry of the Environment to contribute to the month of cleanliness in Tunisian cities. We, as a company, participated in the construction of a new clean Tunisia. We hope that this step will encourage all citizens to strive to clean up their surroundings within the framework of creating a new and clean republic.”