By Alfred Kollie, alfredkolliejr92@gmail.com
Waste management has become and continues to be a major challenge for households, communities, and Liberia at large. Waste is seen all over the place, in neighbourhoods and streets across the country, something that poses serious health risk to the population.
But residents within the city of Paynesville on the outskirts of Monrovia have all reasons to smile and rejoice as a result of the coming of a local sanitation Company that is fully equipped and prepared technically to address the problems of waste collection and management across the city.
Dumpa Hero Incorporated, a hundred percent Liberian-owned Company with an innovative and environmentally conscious waste management agenda, announced recently that it is aiming to clean the environment. And the group has since begun putting this into action.
On Friday, December 23, 2022, the group embarked on a clean-up campaign exercise, where they collected community waste free of charge in the City of Paynesville. This exercise according to the leadership is intended to address the many waste challenges faced by the city and its residents.
The activities started in the Samuel Dahn Community on the GSA road in Paynesville, the birthplace of the Company with excitement and joy on the faces of its inhabitants- mostly youth; that they are about to experience a clean and green community free from common sickness.
Dumpa Hero is a company that offers an on-call waste collection service, emergency pick-up, yard cleaning, and fumigation with a manual subscription system to collect and separated waste.
They are also into waste management training, garbage collection and disposal from households and industries, renting and selling of waste management-related products, streets and drainage cleaning, landscaping, and city beautification, among others.
The company is working with the city leadership as well as community leaders to achieve the goal of a clean city through their community-based impact programs.
But speaking Friday at the official launch of its program in Paynesville City, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer Mr. Nick W. Wento noted that the initiative will be rolled out every two weeks in communities across Paynesville with conferences organized at the end of every exercise where community dwellers will be trained and educated on the proper way of keeping their homes better thereby encouraging them on the two bin system.
According to Wento, they are ready and able to carry out the exercise across Paynesville based on the partnership with the city leadership and other companies for contracts as a result of their capacity with modern equipment such as dump trucks, and safety gear among others.
‘’As it relates to material resources, as you can see in this truck we have two of these on the ground from Belgium, they are dump trucks, safety gears, and other tools on the ground, so we are ready and able to carry on the work. We have some resources and will be working with the city and other companies to get important contracts,’’ Mr. Wento explained.
‘’The need for waste management cannot be overemphasized, considering how urgent it is to keep our environment clean to avoid the outbreak of many communicable diseases associated with unsanitary environments,’’ Mr. Wento noted.
He maintained that as a passionate group, they saw it necessary to help their community, citizens, and the country by involving themselves in a positive initiative that will bring more benefit to the community after they observed that the environment was not conducive due to a lack of proper waste management.
The young Liberian said the company is here to partner with the government and other institutions by buttressing their efforts in making Liberia a clean country that will attract more investors.
The Chief Financial Officer, Nick W. Wento at the same time commended the community residents for their willingness and cooperation in providing a conducive environment.
He however, called on Liberians to continue to keep their environment clean at all times and take advantage of the company program that will help solve their waste difficulties.
For their part, the community dwellers, mostly youth who participated in the process, thanked the company for such an initiative particularly beginning with their community the Samuel Dahn Community and promised the community wellness and readiness to support the program at all times.
Kebbeh kporkpah and James Sackie called on the entire community and youthful population to join the initiative in making the city of Paynesville clean, safe, and green because it will be in the best interest of everyone.