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Helping hands clean the city

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints recently participated in a mass interdenominational community development services campaign.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints recently participated in a mass interdenominational community development services campaign.

Known as Mormon Helping Hands, the gathering in Maseru, Lesotho, also saw more than 100000 people volunteering in Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Lesotho, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Nairobi, Cape Town, Angola, La Reunion and Democratic Republic of Congo.

In Johannesburg about 300 people helped clean and renovate the Methodist Church in the city centre. This yearly act of nation-building is dedicated to the betterment of the environment and relations with the people, institutions and communities in the cities where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is located. - Victor Mecoamere

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