Reviving Communal Labour:NASPA in perspective as they embark on a Cleanup campaign along principle streets of Damongo

Reviving Communal Labour:NASPA in perspective as they embark on a Cleanup campaign along principle streets of Damongo

In an attempt to revive the spirit of communal labour,the West Gonja District branch of the National Service Personnel Association of Ghana (NASPA) in a combined energy moved to clean round the principal streets of Damongo.

The clean up campaign was aimed at sensitising the local community on the need to keep the environment clean in order to avert diarrheal diseases such as Cholera,typhoid and dysentery.

Led by the District president who doubles as the Northern regional secretary of the association,Suburu Kantama,the association believes the power of the community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

The campaign also saw the District Director of National Service,Mr.Abutu Yahaya joining the exercise together with some employees of Zoomlion.The service personnel were present in their numbers.

Speaking on the sidelines of the activity,the president emphasized the need for us to revive the seemingly lost spirit of communal labour,adding that,the days of always relying on zoomlion and cursing the wind when the streets are not swept and the gutters desilted should be over in the District.

According to him, communism and communal spirit should replace individualism in our today's societies and as personnel, they are ready to join in championing the course in the District.

Most of the personnel who joined in the exercise saw it as a complete joy to engage in communal toil, since they were contributing their quota to the development of the District and country at large.

It can be recounted that, for the past weeks, the youth of Canteen embarked on series of communal labour and reiterated the need to revive the lost days of communal labour.They encouraged the entire District and beyond on the need to wake up the sleeping days of communal labour.

It is widely held that,Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable and a little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.As Jeff Bridges rightly reiterated,"The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community."

Communal labour is when members of a community or an organised group come together to embark on a course of action which inures to the benefit of the entire society.

Source:Ananpansah AB (Village Writer)