El Qa`oud ... got cleaned


El Qa’oud Mountain is located to the north west of the airport. By location, it acts like a natural windbreak – this helps the nearby desert and mountainous environments by collecting the empty plastic bags.
Saturday - 9th of February 2008, was marked on the City Hall’s calendar as an Environment Day. The task of cleaning El Qa’oud was assigned to that date.



*The Target:
Cleaning up El Qa’oud Mountain area from the naturally collected empty bags

*The Team:
The City Mayor
The City Vice Mayor
Head of Nabq Sector
Head of El Rowaysat Sector
City Hall PR manager
Environmental Dept in the City Hall
20 workers from the City Hall
174 workers from 34 hotels and resorts working in Sharm El Sheikh
2 trash trucks
1 loader truck
1 transportation van
1 Ambulance

*The Event:
Started at 9:00 am with the City Mayor speech
A speech by the president of the Egyptian Hotel Association
Teaming the volunteers into groups
Start the cleaning process up the mountain and going down side
Total of 200 full garbage bags were collected at the end of the day

*Recommendations:
Repeat the cleaning day on monthly bases and expand it to reach other places of the city to encourage the environment friendly attitude among the citizens and the workers of the city.