Cleaning Up

Stories Untold Cleaning up in celebration of our cultural wealth South Africa is a country with a rich The Clean-up was well Conducting neighborhood cultural heritage and September is organized, and all protocols cleanups to commemorate the month in which we recognizes were followed. An early Heritage Day is therefore a and celebrates our diverse cultural registration and COVID great idea but also a necessity. heritage. The Umvoti community screening started the day off. Creating partners, joining up clean-up initiative was launched to After cleaning equipment was with others in the improve public spaces that are allocated, teams set off to neighborhood or community littered and neglected in celebration make a difference. “It was groups is a great way to of Heritage Day. The initiative was encouraging to see so many provide more help to get the aimed at unifying the community and people coming together to job done; and does wonders to working together to make a make a positive contribution create unity and instill difference. aQuellé, the and impact in their area,” says neighborhood pride. Clean-ups KwaSizabantu Mission and Gladson Songelwa, give everyone a chance to community members united to representative from aQuellé. contribute and, in this case, the embark on a local clean-up on high numbers of volunteers Saturday, 26 September 2021, as part The communications officer of who came forward to of their “It’s KHULA to share” SAPS Kranskop, Sergeant participate is an indication that campaign. In association with local Ndwandwe, thanked all the community is eager to councilors from Umvoti and community members who enhance neighborhood quality Maphumulo, an inspiring turnout of joined in the clean-up: \"We are of life. This excellent initiative close to 500 people saw the day to be so grateful to be part of this serves as a springboard for a great success wonderful initiative. We other neighborhood activities encourage our community to and increased the amount of The clean-up was initially keep up the important task of social capital within the area.. planned to take place on looking after our environment. National Clean-up Day, 18 A big up to the aQuelle Clean- Devoted also gives them a September 2021, but was Up campaign!\" “Thumbs-up”! postponed to Saturday, 25 September, due to local IEC Helpers were kept refreshed Visit www.aquelle.co.za registration on the planned throughout the day with weekend. Various areas were aQuellé’s recently launched targeted along the R74, KHULA soft drinks and natural including KwamXhosa, spring water. The day was Silverstream, and Kranskop. concluded with a hot takeaway The aQuelle KHULA teams were meal and ice-cream provided supported by various by the KwaSizabantu Mission. government departments, municipalities, SAPS, and many Trash-covered areas are an volunteers from the local eyesore, pose a health and communities. Radio Khwezi, safety hazard and are barriers the local community radio to community businesses. station, joined the initiative by providing live broadcasting from the clean-up sites as well as education and awareness leading up to the event.