Concord Times (Freetown)
Mohamed Massaquoi
6 May 2008
Kenema — National coordinator of Friends of the Earth has said that this year's celebration of World Environmental Day scheduled for June 5 would be marked by the cleaning of Kenema and it environs.
Mohamed Keine Sie said the cleaning exercise was a national action programme formulated to combat poor sanitation in their respective communities.
He said the exercise was to compliment their effort in addressing desertification and deforestation in Sierra Leone .
Sei further disclosed that the issue of desertification may create land degradation and biophysical impact on the environment which in turn will affect the socio economic standard of the people.
"The formation of the national action programme was as a result of a broad based consultative process which involves the central government, non governmental organizations and communities to ensure that the environment was well protected," he said adding that his organization was always ready to adhere to environmental problems.
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