The Church of Pentecost Koforidua Area, led by the Area Head, Apostle Samuel Osei Asante, climaxed the Phase II of the Church’s nationwide Environmental Care Campaign on the theme “My Environment; My Responsibility”, with a massive clean-up exercise in Koforidua and its environs Saturday, February 29, 2020.
Pastors, Elders, and Members of the Church in each District had throughout the week embarked on awareness creation and sensitization in Communities, Schools, Clinics, markets, lorry stations, Churches, Mosques and on Radio, on the need to collectively help improve on sanitation in the country.
The Church will adopt a community to become a model of environmental care and a quintessence of the cleanest community.
Speaking during a mini durbar at the forecourt of the Palace at Srodea before the clean-up exercise, the Koforidua Area Head of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle S.O Asante said the Church will relentless help Ghana to become clean.
He admonished Christians to refrain from littering the environment rather be good stewards of the environment by keeping it clean.
He appealed to state agencies and organizations to enforce Sanitation By-laws to help put in check conducts of recalcitrant citizens.
The Eastern Regional Director of Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Felix Addo -Kyereh, said the environment plays a key role in the survival of humanity on earth therefore continues pollution would completely make it inhabitable.
On her part, the Chief Nursing Officer at the Regional Health Directorate Evelyn Owusu Acheaw said, filth breeds causative agents of many illnesses therefore very imperative to practice good sanitation and hygiene.
She revealed that the virus that causes Polio was recently found in Nsukwao Drainage facility threatening the health of children born in the Municipality.
After the durbar, members of the church were dispatched to various communities and streets in Koforidua to desilt gutters and clean the environment with support from waste management giant-Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
The Church of Pentecost, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, to help Ghana deal with the menace of Poor Sanitation which impact the economy with $290 million annual loses, instituted the Environmental Care Campaign as one of the community impact initiatives captured in the five-year vision policy statement of the Church dubbed Vision 2023 under the leadership of Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Chairman of the Church.
The implementation of the environmental Project commenced in 2019 in partnership with waste management giant-Zoomlion.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
