Yesterday, youth across the city of Calabar gathered around the 11-11 Junction to conduct a voluntary Community Service which amass to the cleaning up of the streets of Calabar. And it was fun as many people turned up to show the love they have for their town, to bring back the image of clean and Green Cross River State.
Community Service is when you work for free to help benefit the public or your community. Usually, people who choose to do community service do so as volunteers, meaning that they choose to help out because they want to do so. Community service can have a lot of positive effects on volunteers, such as helping them to develop skills, making contacts, and allowing them to improve the quality of life of others and impacting community positively.
It is high time we took responsibility for our environment now that cleanliness, climate change, ozone layer depletion and global warming has become a pressing global concern. We can mobilize and volunteer to become ambassadors of a clean and green Cross River in our local community.
Government alone has never been able to meet the many needs of its people.
We can synergize to compliment government’s efforts by volunteering our time, skills and resources in preserving and promoting our divinely entrusted heritage without which we are ungrateful vagabonds.
Check out photos from the clean up exercise which was mainly at the Summit Hills roundabout, close to Waste Management Agency, Murtala Muhammed Highway, Calabar.
From the Office of the Governor on Green Cross River State.
