Churchgoers cleaning up streets
CONGREGATION PAVES THE WAY FOR A LITTER-FREE COMMUNITY
Members of a Sunderland church have been hitting the streets as they look to improve a city community.
The street-cleaning exercise, called Pave the Way, was jointly commissioned by Pallion councillor Amy Wilson and the director of RCCG Livingpraise Church, Pastor Niran Oladipo, around the middle of last year.
The exercise started with less than 10 people present at the commissioning, but has had an increase to about 30 to 40 members joining the cleaning exercise every third Saturday of the month.
The scheme mainly involves the picking of litter from the major streets of Sunderland, while the council cleaning team comes to collect the bin bags at the end of the activity.
Pastor Oladipo said: “We believe that everyone in this city is entitled to live and work in a safe and clean envery vironment, we have thus decided to join Sunderland City Council in ensuring that we have a clean and tidy city for all residents and visitors to enjoy.”
Samuel Olu, of the church, added: “It’s going well because the numbers taking part in the litter pick have really grown.
“There definitely has been a litter problem in the Pallion Road area because we collected 24 bin bags of rubbish on one of the days the team was out.
“In Pallion, most of the shops are very, very happy with the work we have done, and we get a lot of people coming up to thank us for the effort.”
Anyone interested can joining the group every third Saturday of the month at RCCG Livingpraise, Praise Hall, beside the Gulf Petrol Station in Pallion Road, SR4 6LR, or call 0191 565 2910.