MEMORIAL COMPLEX `OLD CEMETERY` WITHOUT GARBAGE DUMPS

12.06.2009.

Palilula Municipality organized the cleaning of big city garbage dump place at the very entrance of Old Cemetery of Nis towards Goricka street. It was realized within the action ` LET US CLEAN UP SERBIA - LET`S CLEAN AND GREEN` and worldwide campaign `Clean up the world`, that is put into practice as a week of Nis cleaning joined with the remembering the World day of life environment protection and promotion of collecting secondary row material and recycling, life protection and fight against the climate changes. This activity also gathered more than 150 participants and successfully was realized with the support of `Mediana` Public Enterprise. The promoters of the activities of cleaning garbage dumps, that spreads on over two hectares and stands for very bad looking sight of Nis, were the leaders of Palilula Municipality president Novakovic, president of the Assembly Djurdjevic and Bojan Ilic, head of Municipal administration. The aim of the action is to point at the need of consciousness change about the sense of environment, and specially to Memorial place `Old Cemetery` -emphasized Novakovic.

Dragan Radisavljevic, general manager of Public enterprise `Mediana` expressed his great satisfaction that, in these activities of cleaning city Nis, municipalities take active part and for the fact that the interest of the people is raised for this issue. This action was coordinated by Boban Mikic, councilor of Palilula Municipality helped by NGO sector, members of `Kralj Petar I` and `Djuka Dinic` scouts, media eco-net `EKOpolis`- promoter of worldwide ecologic campaign `Clean up the World` for the region Evrobalkan, LDA –Center for local democracy, workers from the Center for social work, member of the organization `Zeleni kljuc`, with media support of ZONA TV as well as the other organizations from media houses and institution.