Overview:
The next is a collection of images displaying younger folks cleansing a highway close to Hugo Chavez Cap-Haïtien Worldwide Airport throughout Okap Pwòp or Clear Cap-Haïtien. Okap Pwòp was a three-day avenue cleansing occasion organized by the social media weblog T-Son Promo and the movie crew of Koray Manufacturing.
CAP-HAÏTIEN — Simply minutes from the town’s airport, piles of rubbish stretch alongside the roads, shaping the primary impression of Cap‑Haïtien for guests. Uninterested in ready for change, dozens of younger residents spent a latest weekend clearing the streets themselves — decided to present their metropolis, and its guests, a cleaner begin to the vacation season. The trouble, dubbed Okap Pwòp (Clear Cap-Haïtien), was led by the social media weblog T‑Son Promo and the movie crew Koray Production.
From Sept. 22 to 24, about 100 folks aged 12 to 30 took half within the three-day cleanup in Aviation, a neighborhood close to the airport.
“Port-au-Prince isn’t doing wonderful, so persons are coming to Okap and saying it’s soiled,” mentioned Wilguentz Jean, logistics supervisor for Okap Pwòp. “As younger bloggers, we are able to’t go on social media and lie. So we determined to wash the streets ourselves to indicate those who Okap isn’t what they assume.”
The Cap-Haïtien city corridor, underneath new mayor Angie Bell, donated 10 wheelbarrows, 10 shovels, 10 rakes and two dozen brooms to help the initiative. Bell, appointed in August after her predecessor was eliminated for failing to sort out the trash downside, has pursued further collaborations with the non-public sector. Amongst them is Samdi Sitwayen (Citizen Saturday), the place native enterprise leaders and city corridor officers focus on methods to guard the atmosphere.
Nonetheless, progress stays gradual. Whereas components of Aviation are cleaner, giant stretches stay littered, and trash continues to pile up close to the ocean.
“We began and we gained’t cease cleansing the town,” mentioned Benjamin Leïto, managing director of Promo Okap Bèl Imaj and one of many volunteers. “Everybody within the metropolis has to get collectively to do that as a result of the town wants a significant cleanup.”
Volunteers labored from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., utilizing shovels to assemble trash and wheelbarrows to move it to assortment websites. Municipal sanitation staff are anticipated to take away the piles with heavy gear.
T-Son Promo and Koray Manufacturing say that is solely the start.
“We’ll maintain working till there’s an answer,” Jean mentioned. “Our purpose is to spend a clear Christmas in Cap-Haïtien.”
Beneath are photos of the primary version of Okap Pwòp.
