Urban awareness: Spellathon to teach lessons on cleanliness

LAHORE:

The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF) are organising the Spellathon programme which aims to introduce school students to the importance of cleanliness, the new solid waste system and adopting the habit of cleanliness.

According to the LWMC and the WWF, 10,000 booklets with content on cleanliness will be distributed to students under the programme.

The booklets will contain a dictionary of important words regarding the new solid waste system, pictures and interesting stories aiming to teach children about the importance of cleanliness, the LWMC’s cleanliness system and its functions and the role of citizens in keeping the city clean and hygienic.

A ceremony for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the LWMC and the WWF will be held today (Friday) at 3:30 pm at the Ali Institute near Gulab Devi Hospital on Ferozepur road.

LWMC Managing Director Waseem Ajmal Chaudhary and WWF Operations and Corporate Relations senior director Anwar Naseem will sign the MoU. Representative of LWMC’ s Turkish contractor companies Bunyamin Karaca from Albayrak and Ozpak’s Hanifi Kartal will also participate in the ceremony.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th, 2012.