While the Armed Forces defend the country, we clean it: MHP initiative attracts more than 1,500 Ukrainians to the All-Ukrainian Cleaning Day.

For more than 2 months, MHP has been holding an initiative to hold the All-Ukrainian Cleaning Day in the regions. In 8 regions and the city of Kyiv, almost 800 employees cleaned parks, squares and the streets of the towns where they live. Local residents also joined the campaign with 728 peoples from local communities joining – MHPs employees the clean-ups.

The cleaning campaign began with securing the support of the initiative – World Cleanup Day. It was then quickly scaled across the regions with local communities joining forces with businesses and clean up their territory.

“This year’s All-Ukrainian Cleanup Days went  far beyond just removing leaves from the street or collecting plastic rubbish. They became real, profound events which unite communities and demonstrate that together we can bring more benefits to people and the territory where we all live.

«Each community decided what was more important to them: to clean the river, to remove a huge stump on the road that created an emergency situation, to plant trees. Thanks to this, it was possible to achieve important results for each individual town or village “, – commented Pavlo Moroz, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Department of MHP.

In total, they managed to clean 6 park areas, 5 areas near schools, kindergartens or houses of culture. 6 recreational areas, 4 streets and squares of the city were cleaned from garbage. 19 adjacent areas around MHP production sites enterprises were also cleaned. -.

In Kyiv, the clean-up took place at the National Museum of Ukrainian Architecture and Life. More than 200 volunteer-employees of the central office of the company together with their families took part. All collected garbage and tree trimmings were transported by transport provided by MHP enterprises on the ground.

”The war has became a powerful catalyst for public activism – many Ukrainians, instead of waiting for someone to do something for them, improve or clean up their town, take it and do it themselves”,- commented Tetyana Volochai, director of the “MHP – Gromadi” Foundation.