Volunteers join environment ministry clean-up campaign

Tunisian environment officials are organizing neighborhood groups across the country to join a nationwide clean-up campaign that is heralded as a sign of a new era of civic participation. Abd al-Salam Hamdi, a senior manager at the Trans Tunisian Pipeline Company, told A24 “that this step will encourage all citizens to strive to clean up their surroundings within the framework of creating a new and clean republic,” The campaign, which runs until September 4, began with civil servants from the environment ministry launching the clean-up effort in their immediate neighborhood.