Waste Management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has joined forces with the Church of Pentecost to launch a nationwide environmental cleanliness campaign geared towards achieving the vision of making Accra the cleanest city by 2020.
The initiative dubbed the “Environmental care campaign” will witness over 100,000 elders of the church of Pentecost educating its members on good sanitary practices, organizing regular clean-up activities in communities and public centers, planting trees at church sites, providing waste bins for all church buildings, undertaking mass media cleanliness program to build good sanitary attitudes among the public amid other initiatives.
Zoomlion Ghana limited on the other hand will provide technical personnel, cleaning logistics, waste vehicles among other supports to undertake the nationwide clean-up exercises.
The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye in a statement during the launch of the campaign in Accra indicated that the Environmental Care Campaign which happens to be the heartbeat of the President’s passion for making Accra the cleanest city in Africa is one of the church – state partnerships captured in the church’s vision for the next five years christened “Vision 2023”.
He said the church has outlined some interventions such as partnering with government to provide potable drinking water in some selected deprived communities, undertake community health service, establish more public basic schools, initiate the construction of prison cells among other projects.
Apostle Nyamekye requested from government to support the campaign at the various levels by directing government institutions concerned with sanitation initiatives to support the campaign by the church.
He also thanked Zoomlion Ghana limited for providing an initial 500 waste bins to kickstart the campaign within the Kasoa communities.
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong in a power point presentation cited the provision of waste bins to every household as the solution to Ghana’s waste challenge.
He mentioned other African countries such as Rwanda, Mauritius, Singapore as countries that has used waste bins to solve their sanitation problem as was when not stored in a waste bin will end up at public places, streets and other unauthorized places hence destroying the beauty of the environment.
The Deputy Minister of Sanitation, Mr. Michael Gyato, The Mayor of Accra, various MMCE’s within Accra were all among dignitaries present at the launch to pledge to their support to the environmental care campaign.
