Photos, as promised

Here are a few photos of the "Big Clean". We did our part, and filled 90 garbage bags from the outside of the fence of our compound! I was so impressed that the workshop participants and all the staff here pitched in and were really willing to do a really disgusting job. I mean, it was seriously disgusting - trash around here isn't just empty water bottles and a few bits of paper... but I will refrain from saying any more about that, as this is a family-friendly blog!

Anyways, here are a few photos of the crew picking the trash from outside our fence.

I love this next one because it had this local guy who was just wandering by who just started picking up the trash with us! It was such good PR for the "keep the town clean" day. We got so many odd stares from the neighbors and people walking by - obviously, picking up the trash isn't something people are used to doing here.

Now rather unfortunately, the truck that was promised by the UN (who was organizing the whole day) has not yet shown up to pick up our 90 bags of trash. So I still have time to go take a photo of that heap :) Anyways, we've done our part to clean up a bit, and hopefully it will stay that way for a while...