Organisers clean up Senga Bay ahead of fest

A week before Sand Music Festival, organisers Impact Events and Sunbird Tourism Limited, have organised a Clean Senga Bay Campaign on August 20 in an effort to make the festival a safer experience for revellers.

The campaign will involve the community, chiefs, business owners, residents, teachers, parents and schools around Livingstonia Beach.

Public relations officer for Sunbird Tourism Limited Akossa Mphepo said they would like to encourage the community to clean up and keep the area within Senga Bay clean in preparation for this year’s event.

“No one wants to welcome visitors to a dirty home. Besides, as a hotel chain operator sanitation is at the core of our business,” said Mpepo.

She added that they would like to instil a spirit of hygiene and cleanliness in the people within the catchment area as a preventative measure against diseases induced by lack of sanitation.

Lead coordinator for the festival Nkhwachi Peter Mhango told The Nation that they want to make Senga Bay a cleaner environment by making the cleaning exercise sustainable hence the involvement of the Senga Bay community.

“We want to make it a regular event whereby we clean up Salima as a community that is why we have involved the schools.

“We, as the organisers, believe that the only way in which Salima’s sanitation and the project can be sustained, is by involving the younger generation to carry out cleaning projects on a regular basis with support from chiefs, businesses, residents, teachers and parents,” said Nkhwachi.

The cleaning campaign will be followed by a parade from Senga Bay trading centre to the camping site at the hotel.