Gomora Goes Green

Return2Love focuses on Welfare, Humanitarian Aid, Environmental, Health and Education. For more details please click on the following link www.return2love.org.za.

Return2Love and 30 strong voices of Alexandra have therefore embarked on a following campaign (GOMORA GOES GREEN):

Objectives of (GOMORA GOES GREEN)

The main objectives of the programme are to:

1.Develop a sustainable municipal-community interface to establish and promote community-based solid waste management (CBSWM) system.

2.Develop support system to help the vulnerable groups to practice safer and healthy working environment.

3.Create awareness on environment sanitation.

4.Mainstream gender in all aspects of project planning, implementation and monitoring of urban environment project.

Activities of (GOMORA GOES GREEN)

In order to achieve the goal of contributing to sustainable environment development in Alexandra, the following activities will be implemented under each of the objectives. These activities are tentative and broad; there will be enough flexibility and detailed activities will be planned together with stakeholders.

Provide Ablution Facilities for elderly people and women; also to replace pit toilets to flushing toilets

Provide Street Waste Bins to accommodate a certain radius as there is no space for Wheelie Bins in Alexandra

Manage waste at source (point of generation)

Health Environmental Education workshop for all residence and to activate the local people to become partners in a democratic development/ decentralized development process

Promote youth role in urban cleanliness

Door-to-door awareness raising workshops including churches, schools, tarvens, street vendors, taxi ranks, spaza shops and imbizo

To revive the clean-up campaign that will lead the eradication of rodents

Vegetable home gardens and

Beautifying Gomora