A sweeping municipal campaign has been launched to remove 5,000 illegally placed charity collection boxes scattered across Bahrain’s highest populated area, the Northern Governorate, with owners given just three months to reclaim them – or lose them permanently.
The massive clean-up drive, described as one of the biggest municipal enforcement campaigns in recent years, targets unsightly, unhygienic and illegally placed donation containers that authorities say have turned into public nuisances, traffic hazards and even breeding grounds for pests .
