The mayor of the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Mr. John Charuk Siafa, praised members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a city-wide cleanup service project they carried out in their community and its environs on August 17, 2024.
Monrovia mayor speaks to Church volunteers on 17August 2024
Monrovia mayor speaks to Church volunteers on 17 August 2024.© 2024 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.Members of the Church in Monrovia and in other parts of the country, as well as in communities across the continent of Africa, gathered on that day to engage in acts of service within their individual communities as part of the All Africa Service Project (AASP), which takes place every year in August. For the project, members of the Church perform works of service within their own communities that include activities such as planting trees, cleaning up their surroundings, donating blood, and more.
Speaking to members of the Monrovia community, Mayor Siafa said that he and his team at the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC), as well as the residents of Monrovia, were very proud to see members of the Church come together to clean up the community.
“We want to thank the Church for this exemplary action shown in community service,” Mayor Siafa noted. He called their efforts "service in action.”
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The mayor called on other organizations and concerned individuals to follow the exemplary leadership demonstrated by the Church, asking them to sustain the work done by the Church by maintaining the cleanliness of the streets and fostering a clean environment for the health and wellbeing of families. He also encouraged members of the Church to go a step further in their annual AASP activities by "sensitizing people to the project" and generating greater public awareness in order to get more local citizens involved in the maintenance and sustainability of their efforts. He noted that "small small, block by block, we can change things."
Emmett Tarpeh, bishop of the Central Monrovia 2nd Ward, acknowledged the support and participation of the city in their AASP efforts and thanked the mayor and city employees for the help they provided during the cleanup.
"We're grateful for your manpower, tools and trucks to collect those piles of garbage we had packed, even though we came with our own tools, but yours really helped us," he said.
He acknowledged that the mayor's assistance made their work easier and even helped them clean a larger part of the community that day.