Your home starts with yard - people taking care of their streets in Tbilisi

In downtown Tbilisi, a number of citizens of Georgia's capital are taking matters into their own hands to keep their streets and yards maintained.

Recently, a photo of a tree stump went viral on social media.

The tree stump used to be full of garbage, but it was turned into a beautiful flower pot.

The author of the artwork is a resident of Tbilisi, Levan Mshvildadze, who voluntarily takes care of his street.

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Your home starts with a yard”, he says. “We should realise that we’re polluting our home. Everyone must take the responsibility to clean his street”.

He has bought a number of trees and planted them in his building’s yard. Some of them he has received as presents.

Every Saturday his neighbours join him in taking care of and cleaning the street.

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Bacho Kakabadze is an artist. Several years ago, he decided to start building a park. Nowadays, the park is very popular among children and women with babies in the neighbourhood.

Anton Kechakmadze plants different species of flowers in the street. He too started with his yard, and then moved further out into the street.

This is the work I really enjoy doing,” he said.

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Vazha Kvaratskhelia convinced his neighbors and planted trees in an area where there used to be old garages.

I hope the younger generation will be more conscientious to not pollute the city and take care of green spaces”, says Vazha Kvarastkhelia.

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More and more people voluntarily join these people aiming to plant more trees and keep their city maintained.