As part of its commitment to create a cleaner and safer environment for the citizenry and aquatic life under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, Bloom Bank Africa over the weekend partnered with the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to carry out cleaning up exercise on the Bushrod Island.
The exercise was carried out along the Vai Town and Clara Town and it surrounding communities to commemorate the World Recycling Day, a day celebrated as National Sanitation Day, held every first Saturday of each month in Liberia.
The Bloom Bank Africa cleaning exercise had more than 400 participants, including its staff, MCC employees and volunteers.
Speaking shortly before the start of the cleaning exercise, the Managing Director of Bloom Bank Liberia, Olalekan Balogun, Managing Director and CEO of Bloom Bank Africa, said the Bank is well positioned to execute these exercises, adding that the bank has received recognition and awards for the initiative.
He further added that, for that, there is no way they will live on this earth without impacting the environment, as demonstrated with the exercise and Bloom Bank initiative which stands for cleanliness.
For his part, the City Manager at MCC, Jones Willems, commended the management and staff of Bloom Bank for the cleaning exercise.
He used the occasion to advise other banks and institutions in the country to emulate the good gesture of Bloom Bank Africa because it is not an easy thing for members of staff of a company to leave their offices and go out to clean markets and roads.
Willems said he was impressed by the level of consistency in the Bloom Bank Africa environmental cleaning exercise, and would want to emulate the bank by directing all community leaders replicate what the bank is doing.
“Bloom Bank Africa Bank is setting an example that is worth emulating, and we hope the private sector, in collaboration with the public sector, can strategize to reduce waste pollution in Monrovia,” he observed.
