PARTNERS AND COMMUNITY JOIN RADIO PACIS IN SYMBOLIC CLEANING AHEAD OF 20TH ANNIVERSARY

Radio Pacis Staff and representatives from partners and community during the cleaning exercise at Ediofe Trading Centre. Photo by Sunday Amandi

By Sunday Amandi

Arua city

After realizing success in the symbolic cleaning exercise organized by radio Pacis with support from partners and the community within ahead of the celebration of its 20th anniversary, the members of the community are called upon to take up the rightful example set by the radio and maintain cleanliness in their localities to keep their environment clean and safe for a healthy living.

The cleaning exercise that started from the station up to the areas around Nile high secondary school was a good gesture to motivate the people to take charge of their environment.

Monsignor Charles Idraku, the director of radio Pacis called for mindset change among the community members to take better actions in the environment, “We continue with this spirit because nobody else will keep our environment clean, it is us to do it in the schools, in the homes, at work it is us to get concerned about it and change of mindset matters a lot,” Charles said.

Similarly, Silver Pariyo, the coordinator of the exercise and the PRO of the radio urges those who were involved to become ambassadors of change in their respective places, “In our schools, the pupils, the students, we are ambassadors for now, we want to encourage you to go and encourage others also to do the example that we have sawn today,” said Silver.

Alfred Amandu, the city health inspector appreciated the radio for the cooperate social responsibility and said, it creates a great impact in the community, “I want to thank Pacis for organizing such a very important function, it’s very important because the solid waste in our environment pose a great risk to the community, that’s why it’s important to keep our environment clean,” Amandu said.

Sam Piriyo, the procurement officer for CARITAS, who represented the organization in the exercise, emphasized that, clean environment is vital for human health, and calls on everyone to take responsibility, “It is a healthy thing for everybody to live in a clean environment, I urge all the local leaders to engage and mobilize the members of the community to do cleanliness regularly,” said Sam.

This noble cause attracted members from St Mary’s Ediofe girls, St Kizito Orphans Ediofe, Bishop Angelo Tarantino memorial school, Sacred heart Nursery and primary school, Christ us center, CARITUS, Arua, Aliria corner, Ediofe yitia community, among others.