Melville Businesses and residents will be gearing up to get down and dirty in Fourth Avenue and Seventh Street on 26 September from 8am to 12pm.
Gem Projects will be helping to bring back the bohemian sparkle to Melville, along with the Melville Business Association, 27Boxes and the MSI (Melville Security Initiative).
“This clean-up has been long planned in Melville and is long over due. The Business Association has been looking at many options when resident JC came to see us and suggested that we look into the Gem Project and what it achieved in Greenside. I was immediately inspired and realized that it is a great opportunity for all of Melville to be part of a great community project,” said chairman of the Melville Business Association, Clyde Terry.
“One of the main aims of the clean-up is to promote citizen engagement and community mobilsation in Melville. We are positive that by the response so far, the residents and the businesses will all be present on the day to enjoy the clean-up” said the CEO of GEM David Shields.
To be involved at the clean-up, residents should gather at 27Boxes amphi-theatre at 8.30am, or visit www.gemproject.org and download the App. This allows GEM to know about your participation in the clean-up and expected attendance.
From 12pm – 2pm, a Spring Celebration will take place at the new heart of Melville – the newly created amphi-theatre at 27Boxes to share and experience what has always made Melville the Gem of Johannesburg.
Gem Projects and The Melville Bussiness Forum would also like to thank the following businesses for their involvement at the upcoming clean-up initiative:
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Poppy’s
• Bambanani
• Melville Business Forum
• Clydes on 4th Antiques
• Snow Lion
• Buzz9
• Ratz
• Auckland Park Florist
• Nunos
Details:David Shields, 0825579750 or Clyde Terry, 0828834933.
