tara na!

Posts Tagged ‘One Million Trees’

Yesterday, we went tree planting in Indang, Cavite. This tree planting activity is a part of the Green for Life: One Million Trees…and beyond Project (OMT) of the Lasallian family in the Philippines through the Lasallian Institute for Environment. The tree planting sites are all over the Philippines and it aims to plant one million trees by 2011 which started back in 2006. As of now, there are a total of 743,939 seedlings planted across the country. Once the goal of one million is reached, the counting would stop but the planting would continue as the project title suggests, “One Million Trees…and beyond”.

De La Salle University’s Professional Organizations of Business and Economics (PrOBE) took part in this project yesterday. OMT participated in Bringing Kaong Back 4: Isang Sama-Samang Pagtatanim in Brgy. Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite. I was one of the representatives for our organization, Young Entrepreneurs’ Society – DLSU (YES). We planted Kaong seedlings in the area, some were assigned in the forest and we were assigned in a pomelo plantation. Kaong (Sugar Palm) tree, locally known as Irok, is indigenous in Indang, Cavite. According to the speaker, Kaong is good watershed tree plus like the coconut tree, all of its parts has uses. Kaong is in fact Indang’s crop for the One Town, One Project of the Department of Trade and Industry. Read the rest of this entry »