The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev Dr Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, has urged Ugandans to make cleanliness a daily responsibility instead of waiting for designated national cleaning days.
Archbishop Kaziimba made the call on Saturday after joining residents of Kitgum District in cleaning Kitgum Main Market as part of the National Cleaning Exercise held on the last Saturday of every month.
Archbishop Kaziimba said families, schools and churches should deliberately teach children the importance of personal hygiene and keeping their surroundings clean.
“Cleanliness should not only be practised during national cleaning days. It should become part of our daily lives, beginning with our homes and extending to our communities,” Archbishop Kaziimba said.
He also urged parents and other community leaders to instil good hygiene practices in children from an early age, saying this would help create a generation that understands cleanliness as a personal responsibility.
The Archbishop was joined in the exercise by the Bishop of the Diocese of Kitgum, Rt Rev Wilson Kitara; State Minister for Northern Uganda Beatrice Akello; State Minister for Environment Beatrice Atim Anywar; Kitgum Municipality MP Dennis Onekalit Amere; Aruu North County MP Wellborn Odiya Ottober and Kitgum Resident District Commissioner Jimmy Segawa Ebil.
Local leaders and members of the community also participated in the cleaning exercise.
The exercise was part of Archbishop Kaziimba’s farewell visit to the Diocese of Kitgum. He was later expected to bid farewell to Christians at All Saints’ Cathedral, Kitgum.
