DC ‘summons’ volunteers for World Cleanup Day

The district commissioner of Paramaribo South-East is currently looking for volunteers to help with its cleanup campaign on September 21, World Cleanup Day. A source pointed out that many people have already answered the DC’s call for volunteers. The campaign is aimed at collecting garbage within several residential areas. The DC hopes to raise awareness while cleaning up the environment. Officials hope that people will stop polluting the environment when they see how much garbage has been collected. People who want to volunteer can visit the Paramaribo South-East District Commissioner’s Office to sign up. Garbage is reportedly dumped illegally at various street corners of the Southern and Eastern part of Paramaribo. World Cleanup Day is one of the biggest civic movements of our time, uniting 157 countries across the world for a cleaner planet. World Cleanup Day on 15 September 2018 united 18 million people across 157 countries and territories for the biggest waste collection day in human history. World Cleanup Day harnesses the power of everyday people to achieve incredible things by joining together. This world-changing idea began in the small northern European country of Estonia, in 2008. 50,000 people united to clean up the entire country in just five hours. On that day, a global bottom-up civic movement was born and spread like wildfire around the globe. This captured the imaginations of people worldwide, who were inspired to follow suit with the same ambitious ‘one country, one-day’ formula.