The Lamin Village Development Committee (VDC) on Thursday removed garbage and litter dumped around Lamin Health Centre to outskirt of the community.

The initiative came from the support project of Dutch Foundation dubbed ‘Children of Lamin’ that aims at empowering the community of Lamin.

At least four trucks and a truck lifter were hired by the Committee through a funding support from the Dutch Foundation.

The reserve site for molding mud blocks turned to a dumped site as a result no dumping site for the natives of Lamin village.

And the Committee now announced that they will fence the site and reserve it for gardening purpose.

Meanwhile, the Committee said it had engaged with the Brikama Area Council about clearing the site but believed that the Committee lacked the capacity to clearing the site.

Speaking to journalists at the site, Allahgie Babou Sarr, adviser to the Lamin village Development Committee, said the committee took it to itself to remove the garbage as a detrimental effect of the site it is causing.

“It has been a problem for the whole Lamin village and this is why we cleared it, when the garbage are burned all the smoke come back to the hospital,” he said.

Mr. Sarr assured the commitment of the committee to ensuring that it fulfilled its duty as the caretaker of the community of Lamin from any littering.

However, he blamed the Brikama Area Council for failing to collect the garbage from the community.

For her part, Annemieke de Koning, described the removal of the garbage as great, adding “hygiene is paramount not only for the hospital but for the whole of Lamin community.

“It is really affecting that rubbish is next to the hospital. You can imagine when you are sick and admitted it affects you in the hospital.”

She hopes for the continuation of such project between her Foundation and the community of Lamin.

By Reporting by Adama Makasuba