Port-au-Prince residents show their very concern regarding the fast decline of the environment in Haiti. Some people interviewed by a local radio station in Port-au-Prince hope that the Haitian gouvernment launches an effective program designed to rehabilitate the ecosystem.
"The downslide of the environment is something to be worried about ," said most of the Port-au-Prince residents. "In Port-au-Prince, we are more threatened than our brothers and sisters in Gonaives regarding the disastrous aspect of the environment."
More than ever, the government has to assume its responsibility towards the nation it is entitled to work for, added the residents. We are ready to cooperate with the government in order to rehabilitate our environment unless a national program is launched.
A group of 3 members of the World Tourism Organization coming from the Dominican Republic visited Haiti last year to give support to a touristic unfolding plan in the Southeast region of Haiti and the Southwest part of the Dominican Republic. Their mission was to make an overall diagnostic of the Southeast region of Haiti in terms of travel promotion while cooperating in the elaboration of a setting intended to boost the area.
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Wastes and garbages abounding in the streets of Port-au-Prince remain an issue of concern for environmentalists. Some associations and neighborhood residents are themselves drawing attention to the increasing pile of plastic containers. The latter represents 10% of the amount of garbages generated in residential areas.
Many people acknowledge that these wastes are a source of diseases for the population when they are set on fire as it is always the case including the threat of burning tires almost everywhere in the capital.
Dreaming of a safer environment and a cleaner capital, members of a group called "Patizan Anviwonman" (meaning Environmental Supporters) launched a campaign of plastic wastes collection in the city of Port-au-Prince along with the company Tropical Recycling. They hope that everybody participates in this project.