Umuganda
Today is Umugand in Rwanda. Umuganda means "working together" or "community work." On the last Saturday of each month from 7:00am until 12noon all business are closed and there are very few people traveling on the streets. The purpose of this day and time is for communities to come together and work on cleaning their neighborhoods or community, to work on a beautifulication project, or hold community meetings to discuss things of general importance to the community. This practice was started in 1995 after the rebuilding of the country began.
So if you do not want to participate, you have to stay at home until after the alloted time. Now, Rwanda is the cleaning place that I have every been to. There is literally no paper or trash on the ground anywhere. However, in my section of time I do see some people out working in their yards.
I wonder if this concept would ever occur in America. A National Day of Community Togetherness. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! What do you think?
So if you do not want to participate, you have to stay at home until after the alloted time. Now, Rwanda is the cleaning place that I have every been to. There is literally no paper or trash on the ground anywhere. However, in my section of time I do see some people out working in their yards.
I wonder if this concept would ever occur in America. A National Day of Community Togetherness. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! What do you think?
posted by The International Maestro at
11:29 PM
1 Comments:
I think it is happening on a much smaller, less frequent level in some communities- but the way it's structured according to your description sounds more "institutionalized" if you can forgive that word...this is definitely something to share with as many as possible- I could see it catching on!
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