By order of the President, Ouagadougou is to become a clean and hygienic city at last. People have been given short notice to dig out and clean  the drainage ditches in front of their property. Many applications had already been made to the Mayor, but nothing happened.

Now the President has cracked down.

It was only to be expected that the work would not be completed without injury, because after months of hot weather, rubbish had congealed into hard lumps.  It was a case of  hard physical labour, seeing that AMPO’s property has very long walls facing the road.

Everyone joined in and banded together.