IPNEWS: The Monrovia City Government in Collaboration with UNDP Launched the cash-for-work project in the PHP Community on Saturday, Aug 13, 2022.
Representing the Lord Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee, Mayor of Monrovia City Government, Director General Service for Program, Franco Cole said the cash-for-work project will enable the Monrovia City Corporation to foster it cleanliness activities in close relations with the communities.
UNDP’s Resident Representative to Liberia, Stephen Rodriques, echoed that the Cash for Work project is about the city, Monrovia, and its communities; about what kind of communities the citizens or community dwellers want to live in.
He congratulated the volunteers for signing up for the program and hoped the project grows beyond the benchmark of enhancing cleanliness to having a clean, green, and safe city.
The UNDP Resident Representative stressed that plastic wastes can be seen everywhere and that something needs to be done about it.
Rodriques mentioned that every citizen is to take up the responsibility of keeping the city clean and it should be everyone’s collective involvement, the MCC.
He concluded by telling the citizens not to see the cash-for-work project as UNDP but as the government of Liberia through the Monrovia City Corporation and the citizen’s corporation to effectively embark on this project.
Background
UNDP Junior Program Coordinator, E. Abraham Tumbay, said the program is an employment initiative that started between the MCC and the United Nations Volunteer Program and the community dwellers with straightforward discussion about waste mitigation as one of key factors or challenges for the city of Monrovia.
The communities have engaged 40 young people as a start to serve as the catalysts to push the cash for work project, with support of the Monrovia City Corporation, UNDP, and other private sectors.
“We believe the community will take it forward.” Tumbay encouraged the community heads that there will be little incentives that will keep each of the volunteers fostering the initiatives of the project and it will help them to sustain their efforts towards the volunteer’s services.
With the support of other partners like HAZAR, the aims are to clean the community by strictly engaging the involvement of plastics removals, asking volunteers who are to remove this plastic will be compensated on a basis per the quantity compiled.
Also, John Smith, representing Ever Green stated they add commercial values to plastic wastes by purchasing them from community dwellers and end users to avoid plastics circulating in the environments.
