Plan donates waste bins through Beam
Plan Malawi on Friday commemorated 20 years of working in Malawi with a donation of K2.2 million worth of waste bins to the Lilongwe City Council (LCC) through the First Lady Gertrude Mutharika’s Beautify Malawi (Beam) Trust.
During the handover ceremony at Kalambo Primary School ground in Lilongwe, Plan Malawi, which promotes children’s welfare, also crowned the First Lady as goodwill ambassador for End Child Marriages Campaign.
Plan Malawi country director Lily Omondi said her organisation decided to work with Beam after appreciating the trust’s commitment of working towards a clean and healthy Malawi.
In her remarks, Mutharika said the donation will protect people, especially children, from communicable diseases such as fever, diarrhoea, dysentery and malaria which spread due to open dumping of wastes.
“I believe that the council, whose deputy mayor is here, will help to ensure that people are making use of the bins,” she said.
On the goodwill ambassador, the First Lady said Beam considers an educated man or woman a better person to ensure that the surrounding is always clean.
The ceremony was also graced by officials from LCC, police and Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati.
