A group of volunteers in Belfast organized a 'day of action' to clean up the Shankill area by removing graffiti and painting over walls. The initiative is part of a longer-term program called BUILD Shankill, which aims to address the issue of derelict sites in the district.
A Belfast community grouped together last week for a " day of action " to help clean the area up by removing graffiti.
In the short-term, he said such derelict sites tend to attract anti-social behaviour, graffiti, and negative attention, which they aimed to combat by rolling up their sleeves and getting to work cleaning the sites up. "There's a small group of young people up at Impact we have been working with over the last number of months and they identified a social action project they want to work on. They approached us and said, as part of the BUILD Shankill program, could we do something about the the area and the dereliction and decline of it?
He said: "We wanted to show that young people are doing a lot of positive stuff in the area, especially for people who may think young people are up to no good.
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