How it all started...
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The Japp si Reewmi project started with the 2020 Corona crisis.
Alboury Seck, who grew up in Senegal and now lives in Switzerland, was in Senegal in March 2020 and was no longer able to travel to Europe because of Corona. He asked several unemployed youths on the street if they would help with clean-ups in the town of Mbour. Many were happy to do so and immediately saw the point in it. Alboury made sandwiches for them and gave them a small wage in the evening. He organized around 15 young people to work with him every few days.
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Since March 2020, the young people have been collecting waste on the streets and beaches in Mbour one day a week.
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Since Alboury has been back in Switzerland, his uncle has been working with them and guiding them. Alboury has organised a second group in Dakar in April 2021. These young people also work about one day a week. The waste is collected each time by a transporter with a donkey cart and then burned away from the residential quarters.
The foundation of the association
This work is financed with private funds from Switzerland: the association Japp si Reewmi, founded for this purpose in January 2021, collects donations and has so far been able to raise about CHF 10,000 for the project.
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