How 7Hills City Cleaners got ranked amongst best tender bidder year 2023.

 

Seven Hills, comprise a large group of reformed young men and women who used to loiter on the streets with no gainful employment. With the support of KCCA, these young people have taken on meaningful work in the city. 

During the covid period, 2020-2021, KCCA formed them into cleaning gangs under the Smart City Campaign. 

Their job was to unblock drainages at all the dark spots in the city. 

Under the supervision of the waste solid management team, they worked day and night with boundless energy and responded to every crisis in the city during the lockdown;  floods, fallen trees, and buildings and they responded. 

With time, the Seven Hills team themselves into a small scale known as Seven Hills and created SACCOS to empower their members to save. 

Right now these hitherto unemployed youth have proper identification with bank accounts. Thus, Seven Hills is seen as a threat to the old SACCOS. 

Fortunately, organization KCCA has organized enough work for all cleaning teams. It will be peacefully resolved 

These have been recognized by KCCA technical team as the best tender bidder year 2023.

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KCCA- When we imagine future cities in pictures or movies, they’re often cleaner and smart. The cleanliness in our imaginations is achievable in Kampala.

That is why at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) under the leadership of Executive Director Kisaka we have embarked on making Kampala a clean and Smart city.

A,t the moment, there is Zero tolerance for littering, desilting, constructing drainages, planting trees, and sensitizing masses on the proper disposal of garbage among others.

However, this calls for everybody’s input for the dream city we want to be achieved. We need the active support of city residents, visitors, and businesses to help keep our city clean.

On Friday, a youth-led group took up the cleaning tools and embarked on cleaning and desilting drainage on the Northern By-Pass section between Busega and Bwaise.

At least 500 youth from 7 Hills, took up the initiative with support from KCCA.

Menton Salim the coordinator organized of 7 Hills says as youth they want to ensure they add a brick to the initiative to make Kampala a Smart City.

“All blocked drains are going to be unclogged, the drains that have been narrowed will be widened so that water can flow,” Salim says.

The group will also be cleaning Kubiri, Mulago roundabout, and Kavule.

Cleanliness of the surrounding is very important as a hygienic environment provides us with good health.

Without proper cleanliness, we will be exposed to various diseases like diarrhea, food poisoning, and skin infection.

The youth also went on sensitizing the locals living in the cleaned areas about the proper disposal of waste.

“We are going to periodically maintain the roads. This stretch between Busega and Bwaise is the entrance to our city but there is poor garbage management and the picture is bad to the visitors,” Salim says.

He asked Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to support them beautify the road.