Mayor Hani Al-Hayek meets with Women Representing Different Beit Sahour Neighborhoods

Main Topics of the Meeting

• The Mayor emphasized that women in the Beit Sahour community must take the lead on helping keep the city clean by passing these values on to their children.
• The Mayor specifically told the women that they must make sure that all trash is placed inside the dumpsters rather than set next to it where animals can reach it.
• The Mayor also updated the women on the Oush Grab project and explained the stop-work orders from the Israeli government, the plans for a municipal park, and the plans for a surgical hospital that would specialize in open-heart and orthopedic surgeries.

Outcomes

1. New classrooms will be established in the governmental schools.
2. The women will spread the word in their communities about garbage disposal.
3. A Committee for Health and Environmental Issues will be formed with the women to take up family and household problems among others.
4. More work will be done to stop sewage leaks and to rehabilitate the city roads.
5. The women will soon visit the Oush Grab site.

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