Kanel, Jan 23 (APS) – The departmental council of Kanel (north) wants to take charge of waste management in its constituency, by raising awareness among the populations, through culture and education, indicated Thursday, its president, Abdoulaye Anne.
“We want to use culture and education to raise awareness and support people in getting rid of waste, which clutters up and is found everywhere, at the entrance and exit of all the villages in the commune,” declared Mr. . Anne, president of the Kanel departmental council.
He was speaking at the launching ceremony of the Household Waste Management (GOM) project. It is set up as part of the decentralized cooperation linking the Kanel departmental council to the community of communes of Val de Drome, in France.
“For us, awareness, through culture and education can resolve this problem”, he added, announcing that this project will soon be presented to the populations so that they know exactly its contours in order to facilitate their membership.
He indicated that the departmental council also counts as part of the project’s awareness-raising, “working with schools, organizing sketches with themes related to household waste management, making displays and cave paintings”.
“The artists of the department, including rappers will also be involved, as well as other cultural actors in the area”, underlined in turn, Amadou Diallo, president of the Association for Territorial Development (APDT).
-“This project, he indicated, will last two years, and can be sustained, because waste management requires a lot of resources, in a department as large as Kanel.”
Concerning recycling, the president of the APDT informs that the “waste will also be recovered after collection and sorting, with grinding units”.
Furthermore, he specifies, this project will be financed within the framework of the joint system, with the participation of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Europe and the Senegalese Ministry of Urban Planning, Territorial Communities and Territorial planning.
The Matam Regional Directorate for the Environment and Classified Establishments is committed to supporting the GOM project, through advisory support.
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