By Innocent Kachingwe & Pempho Nkhoma

Blantyre, June 7, Mana: A group of women from the Seventh Day Adventist Church conducted a clean-up exercise of the Blantyre District Council premises earlier this week, promoting cleanliness and spiritual uplifting.

The women, clad in their uniforms, swept, mopped and collected trash, transforming the council’s surroundings.

They also sang praises to the Lord before sharing the word of God to people around the area.

In an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana), Director of Women and Children for Malawi Conference for the South, Tendai Mambala said the initiative is done in different special places such as prisons, hospitals, markets and orphanages.

“We want to keep the surroundings clean and also motivate workers through the word of God so that they should not lose hope. We believe that by serving our community we are also serving God,” Mambala said.

She pledged that the SDA Women Ministry will continue to clean other places, pointing out that in the previous week they had swept Limbe and Blantyre markets as one way of promoting cleanliness and preaching the gospel, noting that cleanliness is close to godliness.

Blantyre City Council (BCC) Public Relations Officer, Deborah Luka commended the SDA Women Ministry for cleaning BCC premises, saying this is complementing the clean-up initiatives carried out by the city council.

“As BCC we do clean up campaigns symbolically to make sure that residents should adopt and embrace the concept and it is the responsibility of every city resident to keep the surroundings clean,” Luka said.