The Director of the General Services Agency (GSA), Mary T. Broh, has declared unflinching working relationship to the Zion Christian Mission Center for sanitation promotion.
“Thank you for cleaning the environment. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. I am glad that there are other Liberians who do this rather than me. Give yourself a hand of clap,” Broh said to teachers, students and volunteers of Zion Christian Mission Center who offered sanitation service over the weekend in Du-Port Road community.
Zion Christian Mission Center is an online Bible School based in South Korea, with branches in other parts of the world, while “Shincheonji” is a Korean word meaning, “New heaven and new Earth”. The organization’s Liberia headquarters is at Du-Port Road Market, and has branches at Du-Port Road Waterside, known as Power Source Christian Center; Shara community, Greater Salvation Ministry; 72nd community, Andrew Baptist Church”; Soul Clinic, God’s Favor Ministries International; and Warren Street, Monrovia, Overcomers Ministry.
The clean-up campaign, which was a community volunteer service by the Bible School as a way of keeping the environment clean, was characterized by evangelizing and recruiting students for enrollment. The clean-up campaign is carried out on every last Saturday of each month.
As the teachers, students and volunteers walked from the market past Du-Port Road Baptist Field in their yellow T-shirts, picking up trash, Broh called them in the fence of the Anti-Power Theft Division, a special government operation she heads.
Upon entering the fence and introducing themselves, she asked them how they dispose of the garbage they collect, and she was told that the school subscribes with a community-based enterprise that often removes their waste.
“I am impressed and want for us to work together as long as I am here managing the ‘Power Theft’ operation. I will give you my contact so we can work together to clean the city,” Broh added.
Broh wondered where the Monrovia City Corporation and Paynesville City Corporation dump their garbages, noting that there is no dumpsite at present for garbage disposal.
“We identify a place in Cheesmanburg in 2009 for dumping garbage, but the World Bank is still working on it,” she said, giving the school equipment as a sign of initial empowerment.
In the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf administration, Broh served as Mayor of Monrovia and endeavored to make the city clean.
Accepting Broh’s working relationship with the Bible School, one of the coordinators, Fedesco Wannie Freeman, said they are happy to work with her as a prominent individual who is on record for implementing government’s policies from the past regime to the current one.
“We will be happy to see her working with us, and that will be a good initiative,” Evangelist Freeman said, beaming with smile. “Yes, this is a Christian organization. We made her to understand that this is not a political institution. Nothing about politics.”