Youth Club cleans Dansoman

Published in the Daily Graphic on 17/06/2010, pg 29

Story: Matilda Attram
Youth Club cleans Dansoman
Members of the Dansoman chapter of the Junior Chambers International (JCI), last week-end embarked on a clean-up exercise at the Dansoman last stop lorry station in Accra.
The exercise, which was part of the group’s social responsibility towards its community, was aimed at clearing filth at the surroundings of the community.
In collaboration with the Dansoman Keep-Fit Club and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, members of the organisation spent about three hours to clear weeds and desilt choked gutters.
Some members swept the surroundings in and around the station and removed rubbish from various corners of the gutters.
The President of the Dansoman chapter of JCI, Ms Kate Adobaya, said the exercise was initiated to help make the environment a clean one for community members as well as explore the commercial opportunities inherent in sanitation.
She noted that the exercise was also part of the group’s project to impact on its community the need to keep an environment clean.
“This is in line with the United Nation’s (UN) Millennium Development Goals to sensitise the public to keep their surroundings clean,” she said.
It was under the theme ‘JCI: Impacting Our Community Through Cleanliness’.
Ms Adobaya, described the organisation as a non-governmental, non-profit and a non-partisan one which focused on individual development and opportunities that empowered young people to create positive changes in their communities.
“JCI is a world-wide federation of young leaders and entrepreneurs which represented different occupations.
It currently has an active participation in the UN system including its agents like the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO),” she added.
The Chairman of the Dansoman Keep-Fit Club, Mr Daniel Welbeck, expressed appreciation for the organisation’s drive to improve on development and urged them to expand their objectives to other parts of the community.
The exercise ended with a sensitisation talk on sanitation.