The Church of Pentecost, together with sanitation giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, launched a sanitation campaign in Accra on Thursday.
The campaign themed “Environmental care, my responsibility” is aimed at rallying members of the Church of Pentecost and Zoomlion staff to improve the level of sanitation in the country.
Per the campaign, members of the Church and Zoomlion are to organize periodic clean-up exercises, hold seminars on sanitation and distribute waste bins, among other activities in ensuring a clean environment.
The Church of Pentecost according to its Chairman, Eric Nyamkye, has over 2 million members nationwide.
Some civil society organizations have over the years criticized Christians who make up over 70% of Ghana’s population for contributing significantly to the level of filth in the country.
According to them, leaders of churches have failed to use their pulpits to sensitize church members on sanitation.
Speaking at the launch of the sanitation campaign, Apostle Nyamekye said the campaign forms part of the church’s vision for the year 2018 and beyond.
“In 2017, our focus was on entrepreneurship and investment as well as gambling and social media. This year, our focus has been on creation care. It is out of this that we have developed various strategies to run a campaign on environmental care under the slogan, environmental care, my responsibility.”
“The environmental care campaign is one of the many church-state partnerships captured in the church’s vision for the next five years, dubbed vision 2023,” he added.
Apostle Nyamekye said the campaign among other things seeks to instill in members the discipline to be physically responsible and involved in the care and cleaning of the environment.
“This will take place at the [church’s] home cells (over 60,000 cells), [their] assemblies, districts and areas.”
On community-based initiatives, Apostle Nyamekye said each of their branches nationwide will identify challenges related to the environment and find solutions to such problems.
He added that Zoomlion will “be providing personnel and equipment during our clean-up exercises across the nation.”
“It is worth informing the house that, for the Kasoa clean-up campaign, Zoomlion has generously offered to distribute 500 waste bins, and has also agreed to erect some litter bins at some strategic places. I take this opportunity to express the church’s appreciation to the CEO of Zoomlion for committing himself to this noble intervention,” Apostle Nyamekye added.
The launch of the sanitation campaign was attended by the Minister of Sanitation, Cecilia Dapaah, Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Mohammed Adjei Sowah and the Chief Executive Officer of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Joseph Siaw Agyepong, among others.
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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey | citinewsroom.com | Ghana
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