The view is changing as you drive through Yallambie in Mount Isa these days with less rubbish around the small suburb after a community clean-up competition.
With about 10 public housing homes in the area, residents and a local church group are working hard to improve the community for the local kids.
Yallambie's residents are mostly all family, with about 50 people living there.
Kalkadoon man and Yallambie resident, Benton Nemo, approached the local Catholic Church for help to clean-up the area and set-up gardens for residents to grow their own food.
"This is where people used to camp, when they had no facilities or spaces, so that's part of our history here for Kalkadoon people," he said.
"This place is a very special place to my grandmother — she made a promise to my father Rodney as a Kalkadoon elder that he would fight for this place."
Mr Nemo said the help from the Catholic Church was vital in his goal to improve living standards in Yallambie.
"We have a lot of things down here happening which we want support to help us … mainly alcohol is the main problem down here," he said.
"But this program will help the kids keep them busy.
"What we need is a lot of support to support Yallambie and the kids down here … that would be helpful for our kids and for us."
Church involvement
Father Emene Kelemete said he has been working alongside a raft of volunteers including Mr Nemo to try to improve the area around the homes.
"We signed-up all the residents to a home improvement challenge, sort of a competition here," he said.
"We're going to do the clean-up first and then we can look into the garden beds and building vegetable gardens within the houses."
Father Kelemete, who works under Mount Isa's very popular Father Mick Lowcock, says while there are good days and bad days the project is going well.
"Last week we had about 40 kids coming up," he said.
