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Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the leading Waste Management Company in Ghana as part of their Corporates Social Responsibility has embarked on a massive cleanup exercise together with Armed Forces Children�s Association in and around the El-Wak Sports Stadium during the first Armed Forces Fitness Challenged. This event was organized for Children of non-commission officers and commission officers to share their skills and abilities and to also help non-privileged children in society. Mrs. Marina Kingsley-Nyinah, President and Founder of the Armed Forces Children�s Association (AFCA )Ghana stated that the event is aimed at encouraging the youth who have the ability or skill to come out and show what they can do for the Country and not necessarily the Armed Forces children. He said the reason why they organized the clean-up was to help the youth to be very conscious about personal hygiene in order to prevent cholera outbreak, especially cleaning and washing of hands with soap, as well as tidying their immediate environment. In an interview, the District Operations Supervisor for La Dade Kotopone, Zoomlion , Mr. Roger Boadu said although Zoomlion Ghana had always supported institutions with clean up exercise, it felt the need to inculcate in their cooperate clients the need to also get involved and clean their surroundings. Sanitation is a shared responsibility and while we appeal to individuals to be more responsible in waste disposal and management, it is important to remind the city authorities to play their part by improving upon the drainage system and rigidly enforcing the bye-laws on sanitation and exerting the appropriate penalties when necessary. According to him, aside the cleanup exercise, Zoomlion is going all out with different public education strategies to help people learn how to clean their environment and also how to stop people from littering and dumping indiscriminately.