Surigaonons throughout the province will again join the world’s most successful community-led global environment campaigns, the “Clean Up the World” drive to address the effect on climate change on Friday Sep. 18, 2009.Now in its 3rd year of implementation in the province, the provincial government will again tap the different sectors in the community such as the academe, business, and religious sectors including Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) to get involved in the conduct of a 1-day clean-up drive on sea beaches, rivers, canals, drainage systems, and other public areas that would minimize the litter problem, improve the quality of waters, prevent the spread of diseases and consequently contribute towards a cleaner and healthier province.
Prov’l Administrator Adolfo Pantilo proudly disclosed the membership of the province to the Clean Up the World, an international environmental organization based in Australia mobilizing an estimated 35 million volunteers from more than 100 countries. Being a member, Pantilo emphasized the need for the Surigaonons to accept the challenge in protecting our environment.
Meanwhile, DILG Prov’l Director Rodulfo Nasi assured the provincial government the full support of his office to the activity. “Our office is solidly behind this effort of the prov’l government.”
“We believe that environment is a special concern of the province and not only of the province but the country as well. We know the problems besetting the country and the world especially with the present problem on climate change. I think these efforts will be part of the directions of the province and having this program be implemented at the barangay level,” he added.
Nasi also believed that with everybody joining in and contributing to this effort, Surigaonons can do something for the province and for the world.
This year's theme "Communities Uniting to Combat Climate Change" encourages the participants in the Clean Up the World Weekend, which will start on Sep. 18 to 20, to take action at a local level to address the very global issue of climate change. (PIA-Surigao del Norte)
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I AM GLAD THAT SOMEBODY INITIATED THIS CLEAN UP DRIVE. CLAVER IS IN DIRE NEED OF THIS, OUR FISH MARKET IS SO FILTHY AND STINKS LIKE HELL DUE TO POOR DRAINAGE SYSTEM OR NONE AT ALL. OUR FISH MARKET IS OVERUN BY BIG WORMS PROBABLY SONS OF LAGONG. WHEN YOU GO TO THE MARKET YOU CANT HARDLY SEE THE FISH CAUSE IT IS COVERED WITH THIS BIG FLIES. IT IS A HEALTH HAZARD YOU CAN NOT COMMENT ANYTHING TO TH E MAYOR OF CLAVER CAUSE HE WILL ACCUSED YOU OF NOT A GOOD CITIZEN OR RATHER NOT PROUD OF CLAVER, HOW IN THE WORLD WILL A PERSON BE PROUD OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS. / THAT DOES NOT NEED AN INTELLIGENT PERSON TO FIGURE IT OUT. I WITNESSED IT SO NOBODY WILL TELL ME THAT IT IS NOT TRUE.
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