Keep Southern Sudan Clean Campaigns Launched In Juba

11 February 2011 - (Juba) – A program to promote cleanliness and conservation of the environment in southern Sudan was launched in Juba on Thursday.

The program dubbed “Protect and Conserve the Environment, Be responsible and Keep Southern Sudan clean” will be extended to other states of southern Sudan from Juba.

The mobile team leader, Mister Jay Kay Phi spoke to SRS during the launch of the campaigns in Juba on Thursday.

[Jay Kay]: “This project is called clean Southern Sudan and it is the initiative of Human Development Council and our brothers in the New Sudan Insurance Company and the GOSS Ministry of Rural Development. All of them are for clean Southern Sudan. It starts from here in Juba spreading out to the ten states. Our country must be clean. The program kicks off today to the 12th of February then after the 13th of February the campaign will be in Eastern Equatoria and Western Equatoria then move to Jonglei State and to Unity State. See how the streets are dirty this is a very bad image for southerners, now we are a country, our country must be clean and our capital city must be clean.”

SRS spoke to a number of Juba residents during the launch of the campaigns in Juba. Akwal Mamier a resident of Juba says people should remain healthy by drinking clean water.

[Akwal Mamier]: “Contaminated water is not good for our country, we need clean drinking water. We must be clean, drink clean water in order to keep healthy so that both children and elderly don’t constantly get sick. Let us stay healthy. We are very happy indeed because of the dawn of our country. I can’t say these people have done something bad, what they are doing is something good. Contaminated water is bad. We also need hospitals of our own so we keep healthy. It is not good to go to look for medical treatments in villages and abroad. Let this country of ours emerge better like other countries also. This is what I want to say.”

Jimmy Awad Lemmy, another resident of Juba says to promote environmental hygiene people should avoid littering the streets.

[Jimmy Awad Lemmy]: “This clean southern Sudan program is something good. When we move in the streets and see garbage like this as you see now is something bad. I am appealing to the people who deliver services to the citizens to bring litter bins and put them by the roadside so that when someone drinks something, he or she must drop the bottle into the litter bins.”

The clean up campaigns that started in Juba will end up with a sanitation day tomorrow, Saturday.