Brakwa Methodist School undertake clean up
Brakwa (C/R), July 4, GNA-Teachers and pupils of Brakwa Methodist
basic and Junior High Schools have undertaken a five-hour clean-up exercise at
the town as part of activities marking the Methodist Education week celebration
in the area.
The children, led by their teachers weeded overgrown areas, distilled choked
gutters and swept the Brakwa Town Council Office, the market place, Brakwa
Rural Bank, Brakwa Health Centre and the principal streets of the town.
The programme was under the theme; “Ensuring cleanliness in the
community”.
In an interview with Ghana News Agency, Mr Frank Kojo Boakye Assuman,
one of the teachers, said the programme was to demonstrate to the public the
need to undertake clean-up exercises from time to time in the town.
Mr Assuman stressed the need for constant clean up in the area to ensure
environmental cleanliness to avoid outbreak of diseases.
The Brakwa area Environmental Health Officer, Madam Victoria Brown
commended the teachers and the students for organizing the clean-up and hoped
it would not be a nine-day wonder.
She advised against the littering of the street, defecating at refuse dumps and
nearby bushes.
Other activities for the celebration were symposium, spelling-be, games, and
discussions on environmental Protection.
GNA
Source: GNA
