LUWEERO: The waves of lent period seem to be propelling hearts around Ndejje University to works of charity, preserving Mother Nature and giving back to the community.
Students of Ndejje University main campus in Luwero on Friday stormed the newly created Ndejje town council and surrounding areas armed with brooms, gloves and other compound cleaning items to clean and tidy all the filth in the area.
Under their umbrella of Rotaract club of Ndejje University, the students were joined by several Rotaract clubs in Kampala and donated dust bins, garbage tins and 650 sanitary towels to school girls and young women within the community. After the cleaning exercise, the students headed to Kakute estate in the hot scorching sun for a go green project where they planted over 700 trees in a bid to conserve nature and showing a good example in mitigating the climate.
According to the president of Rotaract club of the university, ASP Sarah Kembambazi, the clean up campaign was to educate the community on sanitation and to ensure that no one in the Ndejje Community dies because of unhealthy living.
“We are here to show a good example through giving back to the community and helping them develop support systems that help vulnerable groups to practice safer and healthy working environments as well as assist the community develop a healthy life style plan,” Kembambazi said.
According to research made by World Health Organization (WHO), one in every five girls of primary and school going age is not in school because of lack of sanitary facilities as they reach puberty. This there for compelled the club to donate to the girl child too.
The chairman Ndejje Town Council, Bemba Moses welcomed the move amidst ululations from grateful faces of onlookers from the area. He said the donations show how Ndejje University is producing well groomed and morally upright individuals.
“This donation of garbage cans will promote sanitation and development of the community as a whole. The cans will be communal and will be placed at every corner and collection points of the town council,” Bemba said
The items donated were, reusable sanitary towels and pads to the young girls in the community, 40 recycle bins and dust bins among others. Of the clubs that were present are, Rotary Kampala Ssese Islands, Rotary Muyenga, Rotaract Makerere University, Rotaract Kinawataka,Rotaract UTAMU plus a number of top administrators from the University.
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