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Bogor youths organize green day
Sat, 03/08/2008 12:10 PM | City
Around 100 young Christians from various churches in Bogor municipality spent Friday cleaning a number of main roads in the city, in cooperation with the city's Environment Agency.
"This activity aims to encourage young people in Bogor to care for the environment," Andri one of the youths said.
At the end of the activity, the group had collected at least 20 large bags of garbage, mostly comprising leaves from rows of trees along Jl. Padjajaran, Jl. Juanda and Jl. Suryakencana in Bogor.
Many of them found roadside gutters were clogged with leaves and mud.
Separately, the young congregation at Santo Andreas Catholic church in Ciluar district, Bogor, held a video screening and discussion of environmental issues.
The video showed the connection between global warming and the bible, citing verses from Genesis that say when God created the earth, the sky and the contents, they were beautiful. It later showed how global warming has damaged the earth, like the melting of the polar ice cap at the North Pole.
"Afterwards, we held a discussion and decided to do something within reach. We decided to work with local people, to clean up our environment and plant trees," Yuni, one of the youths told The Jakarta Post. .
"We will also distribute garbage bins to public elementary schools here," Yuni added. -Theresia Sufa
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The Reader (not verified) — Fri, 05/02/2008 - 8:21pm
Selamat readers! My family lived in Bogor for 4 years...I can see you all now cleaning..what a testimony for the Christian church there...keep it up...Bogor is beautiful, esp. Kabun Raya... please take care of your city...
Carla (not verified) — Sat, 04/12/2008 - 4:53am
Very well done! Salut to Bogor Youth, the various Churches, and the city's Environment Agency. Congratulations in showing courage and determinations in taking the first steps of Awareness in Public Health and City's Cleanliness. A Fantastic example to other major cities in Indonesia to hopefully follow in the near future.
Brad (not verified) — Sun, 03/23/2008 - 6:06am
Good morning
It is great to see initiatives such as this making moves to clean up a beautiful city like Bogor. My wife and her family are from there and it is a beautiful part of your country. Keep up the good work.
Robert D (not verified) — Tue, 03/18/2008 - 6:59am
Hii Youth of Bogor,
Let's go head to do this environmental awareness regularly.
I appreciate, we are all have a good understanding and awareness on this matter.
This world suppose to be a wonderfull planet, let's we keep clean, beauty, health, and save for us to live for.
regards,
Robert D
Mike (not verified) — Wed, 03/12/2008 - 8:48pm
hi bogor,
good to see the clean up effort,
i visited bogor a couple years,
a nice town but it could use some cleaning up,
especially along the rivers,
for those interested you should google
"Clean Up Australia Day"
for some good ideas on how to make your
project bigger and better
Mike B
Destiny (not verified) — Tue, 03/11/2008 - 12:00am
Hey Bogor Youth!
Kudos ! Great Job you're doing.
We also clean the neighbourhood of our school every Friday, picking up pieces of plastic,papers ,cigarettes etc.
Let's keep the world clean and let's show respect to God's creation!
Keep up the good work!
kind regards from Holland,
Destiny