MCGI Tree Planting

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 Tree Planting activity


Is a Voluntary act pf planting trees for the sake of the environment, to preserve our nature save our ecosystem and to prevent natural disasters like flash floods and land slides to occur.

What is it all about?:

The tree-planting project is just one of the several environmental advocacies MCGI is engaging in this year. So far, MCGI had tied-up with several organizations and local government units in clean-and-green themed projects. Among these were the clean-up drives in urban and rural communities, river clean-up in Caloocan City and Bulacan, and tree-planting day activities in Marikina City, mostly on Philippine territory. A similar arbor day activity was also held in Singapore with MCGI congregants as main project sponsors.



The project also serves as one of the highlights of MCGI’s celebration of 30 years in religious broadcast and public service through its radio-television program, Ang Dating Daan or The Old Path. The program is hosted by MCGI Presiding Minister Bro. Eli Soriano.

The massive tree planting activity will involve simultaneous tree seedling anchorage on local and global points. The one-hectare allocated by the government are prone to catastrophic flooding, soil erosion, and mudslides caused by wide-scale deforestation and denudation of mountains and watersheds.

In the Philippines, a number of landslides and excessive flooding had occurred, all pointing to denuded forests as the culprit of casualties. Back in 2009, typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng (international names Ketsana and Parma) lashed out a combined strength bringing about widescale flooding especially in the country’s capital. Disaster findings indicated that waters which had descended to low-lying areas or ‘catch-basins’ were the effect not only of unabated rains but contributory human activities, such as logging and improper garbage disposal, that magnified the damage. The aftermath were houses engulfed in thick mud and water, destroyed properties, displaced and homeless people, physical-emotional injuries and trauma to survivors, and more than a hundred casualties, to name a few.

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