With permission granted by the Lautoka City Council, the Shincheonji Volunteer Group Fiji branch launched their first domestic clean-up campaign in Lautoka on Saturday, 29th November, 2025.
From 8-10am, 30 volunteers, including youth and children, scoured through the city, picking up plastic wrappers, cans, bottles, and paper waste strewn along the roadside walkway and drainage. They amassed 15 refuse sacks which they disposed of at the city rubbish dump at Lovu.
The purpose of this exercise was to maintain a beautiful natural environment, combat environmental pollution through the proper disposal of waste, educate our children to be more responsible citizens in keeping our cities and homes tidy, and to establish closer ties with communities.
Following the volunteer effort, the group sat down under the shade of the roadside trees and each one drew on a piece of paper their imagination of a future city they wish to live in.
Meanwhile, the Shincheonji Volunteer Group is the volunteer branch of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which was established in 1984 in Seoul, South Korea. The Shincheonji Volunteer Group is active in numerous locations worldwide, providing a range of community-based services including community clean-ups, disaster management and relief efforts, orphanage visits, blood drives, youth development and women empowerment programmes, soup kitchens, and other community-centric projects.
