Windsor Community Support Services (WCSS) continue with the journey of keeping the Windsor community clean.
WCSS cleaned the Park on Knights Avenue and the whole street from Beyers Naude to Arthur Street Windsor West in February. They also maintained the beautiful gardens that they started in 2020 in places that were dumping hotspots.
The WCSS Community Liaison Manager Mathabo Bekimbia-Tchoffo said that the reason behind cleaning the parks is to maintain them and make them a very safe environment for the children in the community. “The end goal is to get rid of drug users that are using this place as their drug-using spot. We want this park and place to be a safe space for our kids to come and play and for parents to be free when their kids are here. There should be no element of danger or threat to the kids when they are here.”
Bekimbia-Tchoffo explained that they have a schedule, and they do the clean-ups from Monday to Friday. “Our team starts at Windsor West from 8:00 until 12:30. We do sweepings in the streets, picking up the litter, removing illegal posters, and pruning low-hanging branches.”
“We normally do two streets a day. From 2:00 we do Windsor East. We also do other things like cutting overgrown grass, cleaning the parks, removing weeds from the pavements,” said Bekimbia-Tchoffo.
WCSS has an agreement with Pikitup. “All the rubbish that we collect we put them in one street, and they come and collect it every day.”
She added that the challenge they face is that Windsor is overcrowded. “Pikitup only provides one bin per unit, so when it’s full some community members pay these drug users to go and empty their home bins or dump their rubbish bags somewhere. The only place to dispose of it is hidden areas like the parks.”
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