SUBANG JAYA: In just three hours, about 50 bags of rubbish were collected by 70 teenagers and young adults in a walkabout around USJ 3 and USJ 4 neighbourhoods yesterday morning.
Aged between 13 and 22, the group is part of the Full Gospel Assembly (FGA) Holiday Conference which carries out community-based activities during the month-long school holidays.
Oblivious of the scorching sun, they were focused on cleaning up the neighbourhoods.
Arriving at 8.30am in two buses in Jalan USJ 3/3, the group was divided into respective zones and team members were handed task sheets after a briefing by Subang Jaya assemblyman Hannah Yeoh and Subang Jaya municipal councillor for USJ 2 to USJ 15, Rajiv Rishyakaran.
Wearing gloves and armed with scrapers and garbage bags, they tore down illegal posters and Ah Long stickers; and kept their eyes peeled for rubbish littering the roadside.
The group also identified 115 faulty street lamps for Tenaga Nasional Bhd and the Subang Jaya Municipal Council.
One of the participants was 15-year-old Samuel Saw, a student of SMK USJ Seafield.
Saw said his participation was his way of giving back to society and making a change.
Another participant was Jemimah Ravindran, 16, who came from Bangsar.
The SMK Bukit Bandaraya student described the gotong-royong as a good start for her to also do something for her neighbourhood in Bangsar Baru.
"After today, I am inspired to try and organise a similar activity with my schoolmates so that we can do something in our own neighbourhood."
Yeoh said FGA had partnered with her office to organise week-long community activities for the group.
"A programme like this is good for them as it helps them to know what is happening in their community. They also get to learn the functions of the local authorities."
Today, the group will embark on a tree-planting project in Jalan USJ 2/2L from 8.30am onwards.
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