Homeless persons who find refuge at the Somerset West Night Shelter, are given the opportunity to earn their board and lodgings by being employed to assist the SWCID teams, especially with cleaning tasks. The prerequisite is that they should be clean in terms of drug and alcohol consumption. The services of the shelter, its staff and […]
The cleaning team of the SWCID has a host of tasks and challenges to contend with daily. Accompanying photos show the various activities that they engage in, which include the following: mowing of grass; maintenance work on poles; removal of stones that are lying around – in order to prevent criminally minded people from using them to break windows […]
The Geocentric Urban Management Trolley Project was initiated in 2017. The aim of the project is to provide urban cleaning and maintenance teams with a platform to improve their daily tasks, assist with moving of equipment and tools and enable recycling while performing their tasks. A few design considerations were introduced into the design of […]