Keep Hillcrest Beautiful Association (KHBA)

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The Keep Hillcrest Beautiful Association (KHBA) is a voluntary association that aims to promote a cleaner and more beautiful environment in co-operation with the relevant authorities within Hillcrest and to raise the level of awareness of what each individual can do to improve his or her community and reduce litter.
The Keep Hillcrest Beautiful Association (KHBA) is a not-for-profit organisation, constituted in 2006 and registered with the Department of Welfare.

Our objectives:
• Minimise litter
• Reduce, reuse, recycle (this is our poverty alleviation project)
• Beautify

Our work:
• We aim to maintain the natural beauty in and around Hillcrest. Our volunteers tackle issues such as littering, graffiti, invasive alien plants, illegal signage, and try to promote beautiful verges.
• With the capacity for service delivery stretched to the limit in many parts of eThekwini, our KHBA volunteers do what they can to assist the municipality in maintaining Hillcrest as an attractive and appealing destination.
• We appeal to residents, companies and organisations to keep their home and work areas clean and litter-free.
• We are also socially concerned and provide employment through projects in order to alleviate, to some small extent, the poverty with which we are surrounded in Hillcrest.

Projects:
• Beautification Projects: Maintaining Old Main Road gardens; Maintaining Inanda Road verges; Graffiti removal; Verge competition; Adopt-a-spot; Remove illegal signage; Support Elizabeth Park; Reduce Litter; Removal of invasive alien plants
• Recycling Centre: The KHBA co-ordinates a recycling depot to reduce litter and to promote a sustainable planet, as well as to provide employment to staff members. The site is a collection point from which recyclers collect material for recycling.
• Poverty alleviation. The Recycling Centre provides employment to three staff members, who receive 90% of the income derived from recycling.
• Report dumping: lease report any dumping of rubbish to the authorities

Marge Mitchell is the Chairman of the Keep Hillcrest Beautiful Association (KHBA).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.