Khaberni - Cleanliness is not a luxury that we practice at will; it is a daily behavior, an indicator of the refinement of society, awareness and respect for its city. Amman, the city that once boasted about its cleanliness and organized streets, is regressing alarmingly today, as if something in the public spirit has broken or slept. The daily sights of smashed containers, and garbage scattered along the roads, squares, and alleys have become a familiar scene that surprises no one. All this occurs in a city administratively divided into 22 areas, each comprising a number of sanitation workers, their supervisors, and department heads, up to the area manager, all of whom receive salaries against a role that is supposed to be effective, active, alert for the city's comfort and environmental safety. However, when "seriousness" is absent from work and jobs become mere titles on paper, performance disappears with it, and the trust - only in name - becomes an institution unable to manage the streets, let alone the souls.
If there were real oversight and strict field monitoring, we would find the manager and department heads walking around neighborhoods, tirelessly, not resting until they see their city as clean as it should be, and we would see laws applied impartially. But when the task is assigned to those who lack a sense of responsibility, expect corruption to prevail, and negligence becomes a daily reality that goes unchallenged. It is painful that cleanliness, as if it has become designated for some neighborhoods over others, where we see areas served daily, as if they are the only facade of Amman, while popular neighborhoods are left to drown in piles of garbage, although everyone - rich and poor - pays the same taxes, and shares the same rights of citizenship. Has the service become granted based on class and area? This is the fault itself. Amman was cleaner in previous years, not because the population was less, but because the sense of responsibility was higher, and dedication in work clearer. Today, it seems that this sense is gradually declining, amid institutional indifference, community negligence, and a lack of real coordination between the citizen and the official. Restoring Amman's cleanliness does not need slogans or seasonal campaigns, but rather shaking off the dust on the conscience of the city: whether official or citizen, worker or manager, as cities thrive only through their people, and are cleaned only by hands that know the homeland begins from the threshold of a house..
