Aboso Gold Fields Limited (AGL) and Zero Waste Bosumtwe have collaborated to mark this year’s World Cleanup Day by cleaning four communities in their host areas.
Zero Waste Bosumtwe is a youth group in the company’s host communities that tackles and deals with issues of sanitation.
This year’s Cleanup Day, which fell on Saturday 17th September, saw youth from the communities taking to the streets to clean various locations.
For instance, at Hunni-Valley, the youth desilted chocked gutters, the Chief’s palace, markets and zongo.
At Damang, the youth, with their leaders, also cleaned the community center, the palace, Roman Catholic Church Avenue, and other areas.
As early as 6am, the youth groups, inspired by opinion leaders, elected Assembly members and elders who took part in the exercise, had converged to kick-start the exercise.
AGL supported the Zero Waste Bosumtwe group with tools such as long brooms, shovels, waste disposal containers, cutlasses and a breakfast amounting to GH¢20,000.00.
A leader of Zero Waste Bosumtwe commended the various youth groups for coming out in their numbers to partake in the cleanup exercise. He said cleanliness was next to godliness; as such everyone must take sanitation issues serious.
He further added that as a youth group, they would ensure that the places they had cleaned were maintained.
AGL said its decided to collaborate with the Zero Waste Bosumtwe was because it was committed to ensuring safe and healthy environments in and around its host communities.
World Cleanup Day began in 2008 as a simple act of cleaning homes and streets, and currently, has over 180 countries with over 50 million volunteers participating in the agenda to clean the planet, as well as raise awareness on problems associated with littering.
Every year, AGL supports its host communities to mark the day by cleaning their environments.
