AS-U-R pushes for self-sustainability for locals
An Eldorado Park organisation looks to empower the youth in hopes that it will clean up the community as well as provide a living for all the youth that are unemployed.
AS-U-R Community, Empowerment and Development, a Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) in Eldorado Park kick started an Environmental Awareness Youth Campaign on June 29.
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The start of the campaign was held at the ‘And Then City’ in Extension 9.
With almost 40 people attending the event, the organisation focused on empowering the attendees by providing them with information on how to become self-employed and self-sustainable.
World Environment Day was celebrated on June 5 and since it was Youth Month, AS-U-R decided to kick start the campaign to celebrate the significance of the month.
“Today we are just here to plant the seed so that people can start adopting an illegal dumping site and turn it into an economically viable place.
“We thought that with the high unemployment rate it would be an easy way to assist the youth to become self-employed instead of always giving out handouts and trying to get them jobs,” said Mirriam Heyes from AS-U-R.
The initiative is aimed at encouraging the youth to adopt an illegal dumping site, develop, maintain it and then secure the area for a possible business.
Reducing waste is also on the top of the list for the organisation and that is why they partnered with Julien Rambert from Gaia Environmental Solutions who sponsored the NPO with 20 buckets.
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The buckets will be placed throughout the community for residents put their food waste in. This waste will then be converted to compost for the vegetable gardens.
“The beauty about taking out the food waste of the bins in the households is that there will be no more rats and flies.
“It will also be dignifying the Pikitup guys who collect the bins because they will no longer need to collect smelly bins,” shared Rambert.
The area near Boundary Park in extension 8 will be used for the compost site.According to Heyes, the organisation will teach the youth about the agriculture industry but will later assist the youth with training in the fields that they want to be in.
The partners of the initiative are; The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Joy Prison Ministry, Chiefs Diaries CPF and DC Construction, Pikitup, Patriotic Alliance National Youth League, Molly’s Wholesalers (The White House), Gaia Environmental Solutions and Bazalwane Business Partners.
If you would like to know more about the initiative, you can contact Mirriam Heyes on 067 093 2295.
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