Sierra Leone News: In preparation for school re-opening…Women & Youths embark on cleaning exercise

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Armed with brooms, cloths and scrub brushes, over 1,000 women and youths started a massive cleaning exercise on Wednesday. The teams of women and youths, cleaned the Freetown Secondary School for Girls, Methodist Girls High School, St Anthony’s pre and primary Schools, and the St. Joseph Secondary School. A local organization, Street Life Family, organized the cleaning event prior to the reopening of schools slated for the middle of April. Alhaji S.I. Koroma (AKA Street Ambassador), leader of Street Life Family, said, “our group has been creating jobs for women who are single mothers, market traders, widows, youths, dropouts and those living hard on the streets.” He added, “These groups, who are working on a voluntary basis, are helping the government to clean these schools to make them healthy and safe for pupils when they return to schools.” Koroma said the “streets are filthy and we need to keep them clean”. He called on government and other partners to help them with cleaning materials as they hope to clean all schools in the Western Area. A Fire Force Officer , Abdul Akim, in charge of operations, said, “we are helping the women with water to clean the schools. The exercise is necessary as children will sit in a clean classroom when school reopens.” Chairlady for one of the participating groups, Ya Alimamy Kanu AKA Ya Alimamy Samba Gutter, said “we are taking the lead in the cleaning exercise to provide a conducive learning atmosphere for our children.” The Junior Secondary School Principal of the FSSG, Florence Davies, commended the exercise and described it as timely and necessary. She added that the groups had cleaned their school to the admiration of staff. Madam Davies said over the past months the school has accumulated dust and grass which was uncomfortable to them. By Abibatu Kamara Thursday March 19, 2015

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