By James Esuon, GNA
Agona Swedru (C/R), March 31, GNA -The Agona Swedru Municipal Office of the Zoomlion Company Limited, has embarked on an aggressive programme to educate students and pupils on personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness.
The move, the management said, was to inculcate the habit of keeping clean surroundings and good personal hygiene.
Mr Christian Ocran, the Agona West Municipal Manager of Zoomlion Company Limited made this known to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Agona Swedru.
This was after he led his staff to educate students and pupils of Swedru Islamic Basic School on the importance of environmental cleanliness and personal hygiene.
He said the Management of Zoomlion had rolled out educational programmes for both public and private basic schools in the Municipality, as part of the efforts to whip up enthusiasm of the students and pupils to observe the rules of hygienic practices.
Mr Ocran admonished students and pupils to wash their hands well before eating and do same after visiting nature’s call.
He advised them to distance themselves from littering on the streets and dumping refuse into gutters indiscriminately to avoid environmental pollution, saying that chocked drains and poor sanitation could spark off cholera outbreak and other communicable diseases.
The Municipal Manager therefore urged the students and pupils to in turn educate their parents and peers at home, on the need to observe same to enhance environmental cleanliness.
Mr Ocran said the Zoomlion Company was collaborating with the District Directorate of Education in Agona West and various Basic School Managements to sustain the exercise, as well support the sanitation agenda of all MMDAs to keep the Districts clean and healthy.
Mr Ocran who also had oversight responsibility of Agona East and Gomoa Central Districts said the exercise would be replicated to cover schools in that enclave to promote healthy living.
Mr Abubakar Alhasan Adams, Headteacher of Swedru Islamic Basic School expressed gratitude to the Management of Agona West Zoomlion for the educative programme and was optimistic that the students and pupils would put what they had learnt into practice.
Mr Ocran, donated veronica buckets to Swedru Islamic Basic School to support the hand washing and personal hygiene educational campaign to help reduce communicable diseases.
GNA
Edited by Alice Tettey/ Christabel