If the government takes one step to get closer to us, we will take ten steps to accelerate this process towards the government.

Etefaq # 2 Development Council…

In continuation of the community development projects implementation in Mazar city of Balkh province, Citizens Charter Program started road upgrading of Etifaq 2 Development Council which is located in 10^th district of Mazar Sharif City.

The residents of the development council have commitment, respect and are adhered to the guidelines, principles and regulation of the Citizens Charter. They are hardworking people and keen. Similar to other community development councils most of the residents of this development council are poor and belong to lower economy class of the society.

Around 245 households live in this council; these people are civilized and prefer equity and development; they are always proactive in community development activities and have continuously coordinated works in all stages of the program implementation. 

As the name of the council indicates, the residents of this development council are united and coexistent, according to Abdul Qadir the CDC chairperson “We are very poor people, we know and value the importance of development, we have passed our lives either good or bad but we want better standards of living for our children”. With a smile on his face Mr. Abdul Qadir added “We are really happy from the residents for their cooperation, Citizens Charter program for undoubted efforts and from the government for providing and supporting the program which is really a national program”.

Based on the principles of Operational Manual, Citizens Charter is committed to provide minimum service standards to the communities regardless of their nationality, minority, majority, ethnicity, color and religion, and treat everybody equally, and as an Afghan they deserve to benefit equally and fairly from government and available opportunities. Mr. Abdul Qadir Chairperson of the development council, said “To say truly we had lost hope from the government, national and local institutions, which was the main reason of taking distance from and hatting them, but Citizens Charter build our trust and believe on government since the program commenced its activities and fulfilled all promises. Now we consider ourselves part of the government and through Citizen’s Charter we work together with government to upgrade our roads. We supported the program by providing human resource and community contribution, we were requested for 25 % community contribution but we collected 36 %”.  He added “If the government takes one step to get closer to us, we will take ten steps towards the government”.
It is worth mentioning that all subcommittees of stated development council are active and working based on the schedule and set plans, for example the subcommittee for environmental protection, in order to prevent accumulation of waste on the ground, suggested the communities to use cotton bags instead of single- use plastic bags, which was warmly accepted by communities. Meanwhile, the committee launched tree planting campaign and planted tens of trees on the first day of the New Year.

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