Aden Pelican Lake cleaned [Archives:2007/1036/Local News]
ADEN, March 24 ) More than 150 students from the Aden-based America-Mideast Educational and Training Services Institute (AMIDEAST) on Thursday participated in cleaning Pelicans Lake of Khour Maksar, Aden governorate.
Manager of Training and Development at AMIDEAST Shakeeb Abdulhamid said the students' initiative coincided with the International Water Day. He added students used to clean the lake on a regular basis in collaboration with Cleaning and City Improvement Fund together with Aden's Merah Association.
He also pointed out his institute has supplied all equipments required for gathering blemish from the lake which mounted to 3 tons.
Chairman of Merah Association Dr. Ahmed Ali noted his association has made much efforts to upkeep this site to which pelicans come from neighboring countries to live in this lake. He further added they are interested in cleaning the lake particularly after President Ali Abdullah Saleh issued a resolution to make it a natural reserve.
Ali pointed out his association works in cooperation with the regional office of Unite Nations and within the framework of Ministry of Water and Environment's plan. It is working now in the third phase which includes building bathrooms and tree-planting in order to keep it as a permanent natural reserve. The total costs of the project reached US $14,500.
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