Clean surroundings conducive to clean hearts and spirits
Dear Mila:
In your piece appearing on the MIF Website entitled: "IS THERE HOPE IN THE PHILIPPINES?", you discussed among others cleanliness in connection with the ADB Report on Five Dirtiest Cities in Asia. Manila is not included among the five dirtiest cities in Asia listed by ADB.
Nevertheless, we should not be content and should strive to have clean homes, barangays, villages, towns and cities throughout the Philippines. And you suggested the project of "Adopt-a-street Litter Control Program" in every towns and cities as done in Colorado, U.S. A.
The idea is novel and should be encouraged in our country, the Philippines. But first let us start at our respective homes, yards and neighborhoods, barangays, and villages. Then expand cleanliness to towns, cities and provinces all over the Philippines.
If we succeed in making our surroundings clean as well as our barangays, villages, towns and cities, then we could relive the idyllic environment described by writer Charles Lamb in the following lines: "I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets."
Clean surroundings or environment contribute or are conducive to clean hearts and spirits.
The reminder of Mila in her piece "Is There Hope in the Philippines?" is timely and practically costs nothing except our efforts and labor.