UJ Students launch a campaign to clean the Jukskei Park
Their main mandate is to keep the atmosphere clean and teach the community about keeping it clean.
A group of students from the University of Johannesburg, who call themselves ‘Kleena4Change, descended on Alexandra to clean the Jukskei River and its adjacent parks.
Media relations officer for Kleena4Change Dikeledi Seripe said her organisation was a project started by a group of six from the university students, namely Ireen Magwai, Dikeledi Seripe, Lefa Selepe, Khalipa Dazela, Ntobeko Dlamini and Mbali Tyhomfa, with the goal of cleaning the Jukskei Park in Alexandra.
She said they were given a task by the university to find two parks in the township, one clean park (Juskei 1) and one dirty park (Juskei 2) to clean – they tackled Jukskei 2 and left it spick and span.
“The goal of the campaign is to mobilise the community to engage in the clean-up and to educate them about the importance of environmental stewardship,” Seripe said.
The clean-up took place on June 11, from 09:00 to 12:00, Seripe said there was no reason they chose Jukskei Park but they just needed a central place where they would meet as 5 of them are from Pretoria and one from Alex.
“The clean-up went well as other organisations joined in, such as Clean City SA, Bubele Afrika, and Shomang Basadi Cooperative came to help, and sponsored us with gloves and plastics bags, and cleaning tools while Pikitup collected the waste,” Seripe said.
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