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Monday, 16th November 2009
Woodlands Boulevard is committed to provide a blissful shopping experience and to enhance the broader shopping environment. The owners of Woodlands Boulevard, Attfund is sponsoring a clean-up project through which Woodlands Boulevard together with Tswelopele Step by Step, a non-profit organisation dealing with poverty alleviation and upliftment, aims to tidy up the areas surrounding Woodlands Boulevard.
For some time now, a lot of illegal dumping has been taking place on the municipal land stretching from the corner of Garsfontein and De Ville Bois roads in a southerly direction as far as Mooikloof Ridge, as well as towards the west behind and beyond the new NG Moreleta Park Church up to Brabham Street.
The initial objective of the clean-up project is to get rid of all paper and plastic littering the area. Selected members of the informal settlement are tasked with collecting the paper and plastic in refuse bags. Approximately 3,000 informal settlers are living in and around the Woodlands Boulevard area. Tswelopele Step by Step oversees the involvement of the individuals from the informal settlement by choosing reliable people to participate in the project, recording the number of bags collected by each individual, overseeing the relative payment and organizing the removal of the bags. The workers are remunerated through gift vouchers which can be redeemed for groceries or clothing at Woodlands Boulevard.
The clean-up project is the start of a longer term objective whereby the informal settlers will be afforded opportunities to obtain skills and participate in environmentally uplifting projects. As no additional settlers are allowed to inhabit the informal settlement area (this is regularly controlled by the authorities), the main aim is to enable all the current settlers through upliftment projects and skills development to earn a proper living, allowing them to relocate to affordable basic accommodation providing water and sanitary facilities within established communities.
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Monday, 16th November 2009
Woodlands Boulevard is committed to provide a blissful shopping experience and to enhance the broader shopping environment. The owners of Woodlands Boulevard, Attfund is sponsoring a clean-up project through which Woodlands Boulevard together with Tswelopele Step by Step, a non-profit organisation dealing with poverty alleviation and upliftment, aims to tidy up the areas surrounding Woodlands Boulevard.
For some time now, a lot of illegal dumping has been taking place on the municipal land stretching from the corner of Garsfontein and De Ville Bois roads in a southerly direction as far as Mooikloof Ridge, as well as towards the west behind and beyond the new NG Moreleta Park Church up to Brabham Street.
The initial objective of the clean-up project is to get rid of all paper and plastic littering the area. Selected members of the informal settlement are tasked with collecting the paper and plastic in refuse bags. Approximately 3,000 informal settlers are living in and around the Woodlands Boulevard area. Tswelopele Step by Step oversees the involvement of the individuals from the informal settlement by choosing reliable people to participate in the project, recording the number of bags collected by each individual, overseeing the relative payment and organizing the removal of the bags. The workers are remunerated through gift vouchers which can be redeemed for groceries or clothing at Woodlands Boulevard.
The clean-up project is the start of a longer term objective whereby the informal settlers will be afforded opportunities to obtain skills and participate in environmentally uplifting projects. As no additional settlers are allowed to inhabit the informal settlement area (this is regularly controlled by the authorities), the main aim is to enable all the current settlers through upliftment projects and skills development to earn a proper living, allowing them to relocate to affordable basic accommodation providing water and sanitary facilities within established communities.
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