Indian Community Clean Up Parts Of Marsa And Plant 30 Trees To Celebrate Their Independence Day
Starting at 8am on 15th August, a group of around 20 Indian nationals headed to Marsa to give the area a cleaning and plant a number of new trees.
“We feel like we must give back to this country because we are also living here. It doesn’t matter that we are foreigners here, it is our duty,” one spokesman for the group, Rishi Davinder Pal, told TVM.
The reason? To celebrate the day India became independent from the United Kingdom, which happened on the same day Malta celebrates Santa Marija 75 years ago, in 1947.
Around 30 seeds were planted by the group.
Pal said he was proud of his compatriots as he only had to ask them “one time” and they all showed up.
The project was done in collaboration with the Marsa Local Council, and Pal says he plans for more of these types of events to be held. He hopes the community will also be able to help tend the plants once they begin to grow.
This is not the first time a group of foreign residents took it upon themselves to clean up a locality; in 2020, a group of Bangladeshi nationals launched an initiative to clean up localities, starting with Msida.
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