Conservancy imagines a cleaner settlement

Its members will use Mandela Day on 18 July to realise their vision.

The Greater Kyalami Conservancy launched the Green Neighbourhood Project with a clean-up in Diepsloot on Mandela Day last year. In the project’s Imagine Diepsloot initiative, the project’s members are joined by Noweto Business Chamber, Shift, Just Environmental Action and the Diepsloot community.

The Imagine Diepsloot project is community driven and aspires to develop a safe environment for residents by working together with people inside and outside the settlement to strategise ways to uplift the community.

Last year the project cleared litter from the taxi rank, streets and notified Joburg Water of water leaks. Individuals, companies and 200 Diepsloot community members collaborated to help clean a small area of the township. As Diepsloot is the immediate neighbour to the Kyalami community, the project decided to reach out to the township.

This year, the project aims to do the same in Diepsloot and Vice chairperson of the conservancy Mandy Collins called on volunteers to join the Mandela Day Imagine Diepsloot clean-up.Volunteers were asked to bring gloves, rubbish bags, taxi money, brooms and rakes to help with the clean-up.Participants would meet at the Diepsloot Mall at 11am and taxis would provide transport to the clean-up site.

Details: Mandy Collins gogreen@greenpioneers.co.za