The clean-up drives served as an extension program of Villar’s Sagip-Ilog Project (SIP), which is aimed at bringing back life to the city’s dying rivers and waterways.
Hundreds of Sagip-Ilog volunteers as well as officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources- National Capital Region’s (DENR-NCR) joined Villar in clearing the city‘s drainage systems and waterways of garbage.
"We are providing them with continuous education and information drive on proper waste management. Piles of garbage will end up clogging our waterways if we cannot dispose our trash properly," Villar explained.
She also called on her constituents to make sure that their areas are cleared of garbage piles, open containers and stagnant water that could be potential breeding grounds for dengue-bearing mosquitoes.
"We should do all we can to avoid dengue and other water-borne diseases. We all know that these diseases thrive during rainy season, particularly in unclean surroundings," she said.
Villar also assured Las Piñas residents of her continued pro-environment programs, which include not only rehabilitation of the city’s rivers and planting bamboo trees to prevent soil erosion along riverbanks but also educating people on proper waste disposal.