27/02/2024
CCDJ CONDUCTS GREENING PROGRAM AT ANISLAG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a government priority pursuant to the Executive Order No. 193, s. 2015 re: EXPANDING THE COVERAGE OF THE NATIONAL GREENING PROGRAM (NGP), such program aims to: 1) contribute in reducing poverty among upland and lowland poor households, indigenous peoples and in coastal and urban areas; 2) implement sustainable management of natural resources through resource conservation, protection, and productivity enhancement; 3) provide food, goods and services such as timber, fiber, non-timber forest products, aesthetic values, air enhancement values, water regulation values, and mitigate climate change by expanding forest cover that serve as carbon sink; 4) promote public awareness as well as instill social and environmental consciousness on the value of forests and watersheds; 5) enhance the formation of positive values among the youth and other partners through shared responsibilities in sustainable management of tree plantations and forest resources, and 6) consolidate and harmonize all greening efforts of the government, civil society, and the private sector. The Expanded NGP will rehabilitate all the remaining unproductive, denuded, and degraded forestlands estimated at 7.1 million hectares from 2016 to 2028.
To show our earnest support for the said program, thirteen personnel from Calbayog City District Jail under the direction of its ever dynamic Jail Warden, JSINSP JOWIE S VILLAS, Provincial Jail Administrator of Samar, coordinated and conducted a joint tree-planting activity at Anislag Elementary School, Brgy. Anislag, Calbayog City, and was able to plant seedlings of local fruit-bearing trees marked and protected with tree guards.
We give our special thanks to the faculty of Anislag Elementary School headed by Sir Rodrigo Ventures Jr., Principal II, for joining and accommodating us in this public service and much needed environmentalism.