By
Grace Princess Tarwo/Jacqueline Appiagyei, GNA
Accra, Nov 21,
GNA-The Fan Milk Ghana Limited on Thursday donated dustbins to some schools in
Accra for participating in the FanChoco School Caravan initiated to promote
sanitation and segregation of waste.
The Caravan was
initiated in September 2018 in partnership with the Ghana Education Service to
educate pupils and parents on nutrition, physical activity and sensitise them
on the essence of sanitation.
The programme was
piloted with 50 schools and scaled up to over 149 schools both in the Ashanti
and Greater Accra Regions.
It also gave the
kids the opportunity to engage in the wrapper collection promo as a drive to
reduce indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste in schools.
Ms Frances Nadhia
Aryee, the Brand Manager Fan Milk Ghana Limited presenting the dustbins said
the gesture was to promote sanitation and waste segregation in basic schools to
recycle them for other purposes.
She said the company
in collaboration with the Ghana Recycle Initiative by Private Enterprises
called ‘Pick-It’ with a centre, where waste was segregated to remove plastics
that were recycled and produced other materials.
She said the company
commissioned a urinary Unit in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region built from plastic
blocks due to the importance of recycling.
Ms Aryee hoped to
expand the initiative to reach a larger number of children in the country to
enable them to practise waste management from a younger age adding that
children tend to keep things they learn for long at their early stages.
“Train up a child
the way he should go and when he grows will not depart from it”, she said.
Mr Isaac
MacCarthy-Mensah, the Municipal Director of Education, La Dade-Kotopon
commended the company for the kind act adding that it was the vision of the President
to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa and saw the gesture to be expedient.
He assured that the
bins would be used for the intended purpose and enable Fan Milk to achieve its
aim in ensuring sanity in the Assembly.
Nana Esi Inkoom, the
National School Health Education Programme Coordinator, advised the pupils to
put the FanChoco plastics and other plastic waste in the bins adding that once
they practise that, they would do some at home which would in turn create a clean
environment and a clean nation.
Two students from La
Wireless Cluster of Schools; Isaac Kweku in class five and Rebecca Ajutuak in
JHS two who gathered the most wrappers were awarded FanChoco branded school
supplies.
GNA
