by Gideon C. Corgue
PAGADIAN CITY, November 10 (PIA) –As part of the corporate social responsibility of Radyo Mo Nationwide (RMN) and in support of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s National Greening Program (NGP), the dxPR radio station is set to plant 3,473 trees on Friday.
Station manager Alejandro E. Gesta said the event dubbed “Reverde Ako: Tutulong Ako’ is the brainchild and the heroic service of the environmentalist Don Henry Canoy, the founder of RMN, which started 59 years ago.
The ‘Reverde Ako: Tutulong Ako’, Gesta said is a regular public service activity of RMN which gives importance on the date, November 11, 2011 (11/11/11) in accomplishing a monumental planting of the generation “Z”, commonly known as ‘Net generation.”
Gesta said the event also envisions to save our mother earth and aims to have a greener future for the next generation. “It will teach and motivate the new generation on how to appreciate the essence of public service at their young age, encourage them and make them realize how potential they are in molding the next generations’ future,” Gesta added.
The event will be simultaneously conducted by all AM and FM radio stations nationwide, Gesta added.
Gesta said the local station has identified four (4) barangays as tree planting sites, namely: Danlugan, Macasing, Lala, and Pedulonan where the 3,473 seeds will be planted.
Gesta said over 400 junior and senior students from the Pagadian City National High School in Danlugan and Lala National High School, Lala, and the barangay officials of Macasing and Pedulonan will join the activity.
Gesta said 1st district representative Victor Yu will provide the seeds for the event.
It was learned that 32 AM and FM organic stations will plant 3,473 seeds to meet the quota of 111,111 seeds nationwide.