UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, praises the achievements of the “Cash-for-Work” project

Khartoum/ The Citizen

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sudan,Denise Brown , praised the achievements of the “Cash for Work” project, implemented by the British organization “Human Appeal ,” in partnership with the Khartoum locality through the Sanitation Authority, and with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The project aims to employ citizens in the war-affected areas of Khartoum locality in the field of hygiene and environmental sanitation.

Brown inspected the rehabilitation, cleanliness, and beautification phase of Mohamed Naguib Street, in the presence of Omar Osman, Director of the Khartoum Local Cleaning Authority, representative of the Executive Director of the Municipality, and the project manager Abdel Bari Hassan, along with his accompanying delegation.

Brown stressed that the visit aimed to support the continuation of the implementation of the projects
between the Khartoum Municipality, the United Nations Development Programme and the “Human Appeal ” organization within the framework of supporting the waste transfer program, providing health centers with solar energy, and vaccines within preventive health programs, in addition to contributing to the maintenance of schools and providing the session for students.

Omar Osman, director of the Khartoum Local Sanitation Authority, said, “We had 300,000 tons of waste accumulation, and now we have eliminated 60 to 70 percent of it in cooperation with various authorities.Omar praised their role in supporting environmental sanitation efforts in Khartoum locality. Their contribution to supporting families affected by the war through the “Cash-for-Work” program, and the logistical support they provided, especially the fuel needed to operate the vehicles to transport waste, their organization of health awareness campaigns and raising the environmental sense of citizens, and the organization’s contribution to beautifying the streets and supporting health centers.

The director of the “Cash for Work” project, Abdel Bari Hassan, said that we provided (70) trash bins that were designed in two sizes that were distributed on the streets of (Al-Sixty, Al-Attar, and Mohamed Naguib Street), and Abdel Bari added that “Human Appeal ” as part of its project “Cash for Work”, started in the aesthetic aspect by rehabilitating Mohamed Naguib Street “from one street of buildings to street sixty-one” with the installation of interlock and curbstone, Abdel Bari said that the work has been completed by 80%.

Abdel Bari said that the biggest challenge they faced in the project was removing the dirt collected by the teams and the citizens who carried out the cleanliness and dirt collection campaigns. The dirt was disposed of with funding from the United Nations Development Program and transferred to the intermediate landfill in Rumaila in cooperation with the Khartoum Cleaning Authority. Abdel Bari added that the visit of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, to the project today supports and strengthens the existing partnership between “Human Appeal” and the United Nations Development Program, which finances the project.