Members of "Youth Camp" clean up Tamale Teaching Hospital

Tamale, Aug. 27, GNA- Members of the "National Youth for Peace Camp 2003" on Wednesday spent several hours to clean up the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the Central Taxi Rank and the Aboabo Market in the Municipality.

At the hospital, members swept the floor of some of the departments, cleared overgrown bushes on the compound and sanitised drains.

More than 600 youth from the 10 regions are participating in a weeklong Camp in Tamale to fraternise with their counterparts in the Municipality, with the view to fostering peace in Dagbon. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is organising the Camp while the National Youth Council (NYC) is coordinating. The youth gave a good account of themselves to the admiration of some of the market women when they cleansed the Aboabo Market. Some of the women joined them in the exercise. Some of the youth were happy with the cordial relationship among people in the municipality.

"What we read and hear from the media in Accra is not what we have come to see", they said, adding, "we thought people were killing each other everyday in Tamale".

Mr Edward Bawa, a member of the organising team of the Youth Camp said the clean up was to instil in the youth a sense of cleanliness and personal hygiene.