Children Help Big Cleanup Along Lovu Road, Lautoka
Organisations that were part of the clean-up campaign were Fiji Red Cross Lautoka, Virtue Project, Transformation International and friends and family members.
Sunday 28 April 2019 | 11:47
Children with their parents collect rubbish along Lovu Road, Lautoka for the clean-up campaign on April 27, 2019. Photo: Rohit Kumar
The issue of waste is a major problem that people must collectively address and take action to ensure a better, cleaner environment.
These were the sentiments shared by the Lautoka District Council of Social Services chairman, Mosese Baseisei who led a rubbish clean-up campaign along Lovu Road, Lautoka yesterday.
Organisations that were part of the clean-up campaign were Fiji Red Cross Lautoka, Virtue Project, Transformation International and friends and family
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members.
He was glad to have different groups from various organisations supporting the clean-up campaign.
Mr Baseisei said it would be interesting to do a research on waste management in Fiji because of new settlements springing up to occupy vacant land.
They create an eyesore with the way some careless citizens dispose their rubbish.
“Residents of these settlements have no communication with relevant authorities managing city and town planning, he said.
“So waste is an issue that needs serious attention to be dealt with constructively.
“We want to tell the people of Lautoka that we must manage our rubbish, especially in disposing it the proper way instead of having the habit of throwing rubbish carelessly, which is unhygienic,” Mr Baseisei said.
“During this clean-up campaign we are basically addressing the prevention of diseases like dengue fever, leptospirosis and zika because they all begin and created from rubbish.”
He was glad that the Lautoka City Council provided bags for them to store rubbish they collected. It also encouraged people to collect as much litter as possible along the road.
Mr Baseisei said that in many of their programmes they were involving children because lessons about being clean and litter free must start from grassroots level.
“It is not the first time for them to take on such activity, but it’s a continuous effort that many groups under the Lautoka District Council of Social Services had took part in,” he said.
More than 40 people were part of the clean-up campaign from Vunato to Lovu Road.
The youngest being a seven-year- old child.
Edited by Percy Kean
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