A clean environment protects people's health, prevents the spread of disease and creates safer places to live and work. It is everyone's responsibility to keep homes, workplaces and public spaces clean.
The Uganda Prisons Service joined the rest of the country in observing National Cleaning Day through a nationwide clean-up exercise across all 270 prison facilities.
More than 14,000 staff and their families, together with inmates, took part in the exercise across the Service's 19 administrative regions. The clean-up covered administrative buildings, prison wards, residential quarters, barracks, drainage systems, access roads and surrounding areas under the supervision of Regional and District Prisons Commanders and Officers in Charge.
The exercise promotes better hygiene, healthier living conditions and a safer working environment for staff, inmates and neighboring communities. It also encourages teamwork, responsibility and care for the environment.
As National Cleaning Day will now be observed every month, the Uganda Prisons Service remains committed to supporting the initiative and calls on all Ugandans to make cleanliness a daily habit. Working together to keep our surroundings clean helps build healthier communities and a stronger nation.
