Today, thanks to the day-to-day work of the Little Prince, garbage is high on the public agenda. In the recent municipal elections, all the mayoral candidates spoke about garbage, and what they’d do to clean up the city. The national news site YNET surveyed different cities in Israel, and Jerusalem was found to be the dirtiest city in the country. Indeed, one of Mayor Moshe Lion’s main campaign promises was to clean up the city.
Kiryat Menachem December 24
We’ve been there along the way in encouraging residents to take part in cleaning up their city. With assistance from active resident Dan Krakow, the record-holder in complaints to the 106 municipal hotline, as well as from Efrat Givaty and Moshe Cohen, we’re establishing Garbage Commando units throughout the city. These are active residents, who care about their physical surroundings, who are organizing within their own neighborhoods to flood the 106 hotline with requests to clean up the city, and to be there to follow up to ensure that the complaints are actually taken care of.
We had our first meeting in Old Katamon. You can read about it here.
We’ve since had meetings in Baka’a
Baka, on December 11
Here’s the clip of Gilo resident Dan Krakow, coined “King of the 106 Municipal Hotline” providing tips to residents:
In Kiryat Menachem
Improving strategy in Kiryat Menachem
And in the Gonenim.
Talking garbage in Gonenim on December 30b
Dan has introduced us to how the municipal complaint system works, who is in charge of what, the most effective ways to follow up and with whom, and how to take things to the next level.
Everyone has been very enthusiastic and are excited to get started. Neighborhoods next in line – Gilo and possibly the Bucharim neighborhood.
Many thanks to the Rayne Foundation for their support of this program, and to the Jerusalem Foundation for their support in advancing cross-cultural activism in Jerusalem.
