On this Wednesday, 145 people, 85 men and 60 women, are working hard to finalize the cleaning of the central market area. Gravels and garbage are cleared away to prevent the spread of epidemic deseases in the area of the market where litter, rotten meat, chemicals and other goods lay scattered on the floor. This cash for work activity (vulnerable local people are hired to take part in the cleaning and get paid every day) is part of ACTED’s ongoing emergency operations in Osh and its region.

Over the last four days, 3,500 meters of the market roads were cleaned from trash. This also improved the food security situation of 298 vulnerable community members who were food insecure as a result of the events in Osh. The beneficiaries included notably IDPs from the camp Aktilek who left their home villages, as well as local residents from the city of Osh.

ACTED involved the representative of market administration, the city administration and sanitary-epidemological department of Osh City who provided support for the program (equipment, garbage trucks, disinfection of cleaned areas, masks for workers).

160 people worked nearby to clean the central streets of “Isanov” and “Petrov”, while 11 inhabitants of Osh were mobilized to offload the humanitarian aid sent by UNICEF which arrived at the airport in Osh. ACTED is planning and foreseeing the possibility of further mobilizing vulnerable community members, IDPs or other conflict affected people to upload and offload food aid in warehouses in the days to come.