Tandag City Gov’t support Nat’l Greening Program this Summer

Thursday 19th of April 2012

TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, April 19 (PIA) -– In line with the National Greening Program of President Benigno S. Aquino III, the city government spearheaded a tree planting activity on Tuesday, involving the youth this summer planting Narra and Lawaan species.

According to Community Development Information Officer Vicente Cosare, the activity was conducted at Ihawan Spring Watershed, Cagboo, Awasian, this city and was participated by some 297 Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) beneficiaries and Saint Theresa College students.

Cosare stressed that the SPES beneficiaries will stay at the tree planting site for 20 days starting April 2-May 2 for replanting, cleaning and ring weeding.

Meanwhile, the local government here already conducted several tree planting activities from the past months tied with some private and public agencies, civil society organizations and students of Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU) and other public secondary schools here in the Watershed area and the newly identified development eco-park which is formerly a dump-site of Tandag City.

The series of activities conducted support the priority program of the national government which aimed to plant 1.5 billion trees by 2016. (Nida Grace B. Tranquilan/RER/PIA Surigao del Sur)