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 to carryout cleaning up exercises in Monrovia and its surrounding areas, including Bushrod Island.

Vai, Clara Towns and their surrounding Communities were covered as part of activities to commemorate World Recycling Day; a day celebrated as national sanitation Day observed every first Saturday of each month in Liberia.

More than four hundred participants, including staff of Bloom Bank Africa, employees of the MCC and volunteers participated in the weekend’s cleaning exercise.

In remarks, Bloom Bank-Liberia Managing Director, 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.

Mr. Balogun said 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.

Mr. Jones Williams, MCC’s City Manager, in brief remarks commended the management and staff of Bloom Bank for the cleaning exercise.

Mr. Williams used the occasion to advise other banks and institutions in the country to emulate the good gesture of Bloom Bank Africa, adding that it is not an easy thing for members of staff of a company to leave their offices and go out to clean markets and streets.

Mr. Williams 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 to 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” he said.