Clean Up Australia
Comment on The Advertiser article on Page 22 - Monday March 2013. Headline - Muslims lead the way in Clean Up.
Yes, I know we all did our bit on Clean Up Australia Day . . . well at least we thought about it on the day, and maybe even volunteered to get out and about in our suburb and "do our bit."
Or maybe we just thought it would be a good idea and perhaps "we'll really do it next year?" After all we're all quite busy these days, we've volunteered before and done our bit.
but there is a wake-up call in The Advertiser newspaper today (March 4) which hit the mark for me. Perhaps it will make you think about it too: Headline reads "Muslims lead the way in Clean Up."
It tells how the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association branches in South Australia, Victoria and Queensland formed the top three groups with the most volunteers to do "their bit" on the big Clean Up day. It included more than 170 members of the association in Adelaide.
"This is our religious, social and moral duty - that'swhy we, as a community, have taken part in the event," the association's SA president, Manzoor Khan, told The Advertiser.
Incidentally Mr. Khan has been taking part in the Clean Up event for the past 10 years.
The story points out that the Ahmadiyya community in Victoria provided the largest group of volunteers yesterday with 272 people cleaning up. In Queensland the community provided 173 volunteers.
Total overall numbers of all people volunteering in Australia could be higher than last year's estimated 591,400 volunteers.
That did it for me.
I'm definitely doing it next year. I feel I need to give something back to this wonderful country and it's amazing mix of wonderful people who are willing and able and above all very active and are taking part in the Australian community and it's needs.
