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Nov 06, 2012 News
The Festival City Youth and Parent Organisation (FCYPO) organized a community clean-up day over the weekend to clean Festival City. The exercise was to honour the historic neighbourhood and restore it to its former glory.
This clean-up was the largest and most successful to date with over 50 participants from seven civic groups.
U.S. Ambassador D. Brent Hardt and members of the Embassy community joined in the clean-up and donated tools, including a rake, hoe, wheelbarrow, broom and gloves, to support the effort.
Habitat for Humanity, the University of Guyana’s EcoTrust Society and students from its School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Scotia Bank, Youth Media Guyana, Marian Academy, and the Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central all participated in the clean-up.
Although the FCYPO works to maintain the cleanliness of Festival City on a regular basis, almost every Sunday, this event was a special clean-up as part of the Guyana Shines initiative. Guyana Shines was launched in April 2012 to bring together diplomatic and Guyanese civic partners to promote anti-littering education and encourage and mobilize Guyanese communities to address the serious littering problem in Guyana.
Guyana Shines reaches out to schools to deliver presentations to build awareness among young Guyanese of the harmful effects of littering and pollution and to encourage students to make environmentally friendly decisions. It has also supported hands-on, clean-up projects within Georgetown neighborhoods to bring communities together in common action.
Ambassador Hardt expressed his thanks for the high turn-out and hard work, adding that “the momentum is clearly building within more and more communities and civic groups in Guyana to change attitudes and take action to make Guyana a more beautiful place to live for all citizens.”
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