Vincent Gunde 
By Vincent Gunde
District Commissioner for Dowa James Kanyangaladzi, says the council is committed to make the district hygienic by ensuring that all markets are clean.
Kanyangaladzi said cleanliness is second to Godness saying the district has so many markets, if the cleaning initiative can go to all markets, Dowa will have a cleaner environment.
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Speaking after a cleaning exercise of the Dzaleka Refugee Camp market, Kanyangaladzi, said the Council thought of bringing the cleaning exercise to Dzaleka Camp having in mind that it has over 80,000 refugees and asylum seekers using the Dzaleka market joined by the host community.
Kanyangaladzi said doing the cleaning exercise at the main market is significant as it will help all business people to take care of the surrounding places their businesses are being run.
He urged the people surrounding Dzaleka Camp market to take issues of sanitation as the basis for their lives improvement to avoid diseases such as cholera especially now the rains are expected to come in the district.
“If there will be a cholera case at Dzaleka, this will be too bad, many are likely to be infected because the population is too high,” said Kanyangaladzi.Malawi Seeks China Partnerships to Make Smartphones Cheaper
He appealed to partners implementing their various interventions in the district to support initiatives for cleaning exercises in markets so that the district record zero water – borne diseases one of it being cholera.
Kanyangaladzi thanked partners for supporting the council to be holding such executive order every month saying last month, they were together at Dowa Boma market, Dzaleka , next will be Mponela, Madisi, Dowa turn off market and the rest of the markets in the district.
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In his remarks, Dzaleka main market Committee Chairperson William Chiyeza, thanked the leadership of the Council for being so exemplary saying there presence at the market will help to pass the message of promoting cleanliness at the market and areas surrounding the market.
Chiyeza encouraged fellow vendors at the market, market sub committees and all those using the market to make sure that the market is being kept clean all the time.
He appealed to all vendors at the market to clean places where they are selling their products and not always waiting for the Council’s cleaners to come in and clean their places.
