Youth Ministry in Service: Clean-up Drive

The Parish Youth Apostolate (PYA) is an organization composed of catholic young people ages 13 years old up to 40 years old who are not married, active or inactive in the church. This organization is based from different parishes. If you are belong in a catholic church and you are young, you are qualified to be part of the PYA family immediately.

Along with, the PYA family in Santo Niño Parish, Bacolod, Lanao del Norte organized a clean-up drive to protect, conserve and preserve the environment mainly here in our local community. It is part of our vision and mission as being part of the PYA and as a human being who is responsible in taking good care of God’s creation. So, here’s our coverage during the clean-up drive.

The ‘Oplan Pulot-Basura’ also called as ‘Picking up the Garbage Operation’ in public places. The young people in our town are cooperative and helpful in cleaning the public streets as shown in the picture above and the following pictures below.

Despite the heat of the sun, it was not a hindrance to stop our service.

The other young ones were cleaning in our very own public plaza in Bacolod. In case you didn’t know, the young participants were divided into few groups and were assigned in the different public areas in the municipality.

Then, the collected garbage were brought and put into the MRF (Material Recovery Facility) of the town since we only picked up those non-biodegradable wastes.

We also shared and conducted this activity in some neighboring places, such as in Suarez, Iligan City. We organized a clean-up drive there as a part of their youth formation and to bring out their ‘environmentalist’ persona.

They picked up those unwanted substances or the non-biodegradable wastes in some of the public areas in their community. The same process on what we did in our clean-up drive in our place.

Lastly, we also conducted this activity to the young people in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. We had our clean-up drive along the seashore. As you can see on the photo above the seashore was now clean and pleasing to the eyes.

These were the collected garbages alongside the seashore of Kolambugan. Can you imagine that? Those were the generated wastes from their public market since it is beside the seashore. The local government in Kolambugan should do something about the solid waste management of their public market. The wastes should not be thrown away on the seashore.

The young people in Kolambugan after the clean-up drive in the seashore headed by the SNPYA Leaders of Bacolod, LDN together with the local fire station staff.

In our little ways we can make a difference in helping to conserve and preserve our beloved mother nature. It is our only home. We, as a young people, who are the future in the society, it is our responsibility to give back the love which our environment deserves it. We should take care and love God’s creation as you love yourself. And be grateful on what He did for us by giving this paradise we lived in.

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@aubriel