Yarmouk became the first healthy city in Kuwait this month by fulfilling the requirements of the World Health Organization (WHO). Some of the requirements they fulfilled included:
– Fighting against obesity
– Having a walk marathon
– Beautification and cleaning of the city
– Setting up a well-equipped walking track
– Planted trees
– Saved power and water
– Washed streets with water and soap
– Organized exhibitions for young entrepreneurs a
– Established an environment-friendly park
– Organized cultural, social, educational and health symposiums and lectures
– Urged people to donate blood
– Combatted smoking
– Fighting swine flu
I think thats really great now if only the same formula could be applied to my area or other areas around Kuwait. Checkout the article on KUNA [Here]
Photo by Samira
23 replies on “1st Healthy City in Kuwait”
AlYarmouk is a city?
since when? lol
City? Isn’t that a bit much?
Kudos to the Yarmoukians for turning the area into a unique place :).
The rest of residential areas in Kuwait should follow suit.
Congratulations to the authorities and residents of Yarmouk. This is a fine example and hopefully other areas will follow suit (including expat areas). Only gripe is about the extensive use of artificial grass in Yarmouk. That can’t be healthy can it?
Seriously?!?! Yarmouk is not a city. Seriously?!?! Not by any standard. Seriously?!?! Not even close. Seriously?!?! Its a small neighborhood and that’s all. SERIOUSLY! Come on now. So shocked. Utter disbelief. Seriously?!?! This is a mockery. A city??? WTF??? Hell no… Is this a joke? Its not even considered a city by the people who live there. Seriously? And what do you call them now, Yarmokians? Seriously?!?
Dude… calm down. I’m Kuwaiti and I never even thought about this being a huge deal. Enough with the ego, you don’t need to be so rude.
Please calm down.
The majority of Kuwaitis live in the Governorates of Capital (Asimah), Hawalli and Farwaniyah
Only 45% of Kuwaitis live in the Governorates of Jahra, Ahmadi and Mubarak al-Kabeer
https://stat.paci.gov.kw/englishreports/
If only they STOP SMOKING things will be more than healthy.
The problem is that smoking has become part of our culture, and that’s hard for people to let go of. I hate the fact that I’m practically at risk of having lung cancer because of second hand smoking, though. We need to teach students the dangers of smoking and fight against it more heavily. teenagers as early as 13 (maybe even earlier idk) are smoking as if it’s “cool” or some shit. It’s disgusting. There need to be laws against smoking at a young age or buying cigs at a young age. But the problem in Kuwait is that you will RARELY find police officers that enforce the law, especially on Kuwaitis …
I see a lot of old smokers. You do not see many old fat people. Priorities.
Damn. If only Mark was Mayor of Salmiya , then definitely we would have beaten Yarmouk to it !
🙂
+1
Saved water by washing the street with water AND soap (as opposed to what, kerosine)?
I can imagine everybody wearing N95 masks in their fight against the Swine Flu.
why we always criticise everything!! look at the big picture
I don’t understand how washing the street makes a city healthy. It’s a street for god’s sake. It will be dirty the next day. And we live in a desert. We’re not on a surplus of water or anything.
F A N T A S T I C ! ! !
i dont understand why wash road with soap and water.
The soap may break down the oil leaked on the road resulting in less slick roads when it rains? If you ride motorcycles, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
But you do understand that all the soapy water will reach the storm drains and than the gulf waters poisoning all the life forms living in this waters. Unless they use bio-degradable soap, which I really doubt.
-1 on this point of WHO
https://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/09/local/la-me-ln-slick-roads-expected-as-seasons-first-rains-come-20131009
Actual work did by some expats and the nationals get all the credit
+1
No, the work was done by the nationals who organized all of it.