Clean-up drive starts today: Mega Cebu

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2015/09/04/clean-drive-starts-today-mega-cebu-428512
• Friday, September 4, 2015

By Earl Jon M. Rallos

SATURDAYS in Cebu Province this month will get busier as people from different sectors are set to unite efforts in clearing streets and local communities of garbage.

The “Limpyo Cebu, Pwede Kaayo” clean-up drive, initiated by Mega Cebu in partnership with Let’s Do It Philippines, will start today.

Carol Ballesteros, communication and stakeholder relationship manager of Mega Cebu, said they have been inviting the education and private sector to take part in its first of a kind environmental activity.

Some schools, ESL companies and land developers, which already committed to participate, will be cleaning on all Saturdays of September from 7-9 a.m.

But Ballesteros said they want the activity to become the Saturday morning habit of Cebuanos.

During their launching last Tuesday, Ballesteros said that Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy and Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes also pledged to help.

The group has also tapped the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry to urge their member companies to join.

Mega Cebu, in its aim for participation of students, received a sympathetic response from the Department of Education (Deped).

“We went to DepEd about two weeks ago to help us and we are glad that they are willing to do it,” she told Sun.Star Cebu.

Dr. Berna Ysulan of Deped said their office already issued regional memorandum 509 to all division superintendents, directing them to encourage the students to join Limpyo Cebu.