Kabul municipality hires women as street cleaners

Kabul municipality has hired 170 women to clean the streets in the densely populated city, a local newspaper the Daily Outlook reported on Wednesday.

This is the first time that the entity has been hiring women to clean streets in the conservative society, the paper added, writing that the Kabul Municipality plans to employee 2,000 street cleaners in the current year and 500 of them will be women to keep the city clean.

Citing officials with the municipality, the paper added that 25 percent of the newly employed street cleaners will be women.

Kabul, a city with some 5 million population produces hundreds of tons of garbage daily, according to officials, and population of the city is on constant rise as many families from countryside leave their houses due to security concerns for Kabul almost every month.

Talking to the leading private television channel, Tolo, a street cleaner woman has welcomed the initiative of Kabul Municipality and said that providing job to women would help many families to improve their living conditions. Enditem