If we plant, we could lose! If we don't plant, we have ALREADY LOST...! It takes T-I-M-E to build a Nation!
Admittedly, tree-planting by an OFW could be waste of resources (money, energy, time)! It is tiring, expensive, could be lost opportunity! It could be fenced, there could be a person paid to watch, but it can still fail! Very VALID arguments!
Must a Filipino give-up the environment/ecology because of reasons enumerated above? It takes 30, 50, 100 years to appreciate a majestic tree! But less than 30 minutes to cut 20 of them one-by-one with a chainsaw!
Again, must we Filipinos quickly give up our country and countrymen so fast?
Let's invite Barangay officials, lalo na ang Kapitan del barrio or the local Parish priest or the school officials/school principal nearby..., complete with picture-taking! It's one way of INVOLVING them (pinpointing or assigning responsibility, if you will), in NATION-BUILDING (!), because community/church/school officials, leaders are not there merely as décor!
If Boholano acquaintances, specifically NRW Forum members near Bochum/Duesseldorf, Germany, will also visit this project when one of their members fly to Bohol during their vacation..., this is one SIGN that there are right-minded Filipinos still!
It may be painful and a waste if we come back next trip and all we see is the same place: no plants, no trees, "nakatiwangwang!", unproductive, just grassland!
Filipinos have to start taking responsibility with their lives..., in their own hands!
Can't a country (barangay, island, province, region) not think correctly, properly, independently, collectively for the COMMON GOOD?
If EU or Japan or Australia provide project funding (seed bank or reforestation), must EU or Japan or Australia "babysit" us Filipinos? As adults that we are, our answer should be N-E-V-E-R!
This project is small-scale, because this is all one Filipino OFW could find after a one-week "search" with his limited budget in his 3-weeks vacation (Manila, Cebu, Bohol, Butuan, Surigao, Davao)!
Still, it's not the land size, but the WILLINGNESS to plant on it that must count and be given value!
If this one small project after 1 year fails, at least one Filipino OFW did not!
We should NEVER give up that easily!
Let's do SOMETHING!
Let's think OUT OF THE BOX!
Let's plant, even if land is not ours (get owner's permission perhaps?)!
Let's do it!
Let's find more REASONS to plant, than not to (even death, birth, lost tooth, graduation, job loss, etc.)!
For country and people!
:)
Lazir
Proud Filipino
P.S. - If we plant edible plants, vegetables, fruit trees on every VACANT LOT in the country, we will be LESS HUNGRY as a Nation! We will become a STRONGer Nation!
The Filipinos are poor, but the Philippines is not a poor country. (paraphrasing EU Ambassador McDonald)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
Admittedly, tree-planting by an OFW could be waste of resources (money, energy, time)! It is tiring, expensive, could be lost opportunity! It could be fenced, there could be a person paid to watch, but it can still fail! Very VALID arguments!
Must a Filipino give-up the environment/ecology because of reasons enumerated above? It takes 30, 50, 100 years to appreciate a majestic tree! But less than 30 minutes to cut 20 of them one-by-one with a chainsaw!
Again, must we Filipinos quickly give up our country and countrymen so fast?
Let's invite Barangay officials, lalo na ang Kapitan del barrio or the local Parish priest or the school officials/school principal nearby..., complete with picture-taking! It's one way of INVOLVING them (pinpointing or assigning responsibility, if you will), in NATION-BUILDING (!), because community/church/school officials, leaders are not there merely as décor!
If Boholano acquaintances, specifically NRW Forum members near Bochum/Duesseldorf, Germany, will also visit this project when one of their members fly to Bohol during their vacation..., this is one SIGN that there are right-minded Filipinos still!
It may be painful and a waste if we come back next trip and all we see is the same place: no plants, no trees, "nakatiwangwang!", unproductive, just grassland!
Filipinos have to start taking responsibility with their lives..., in their own hands!
Can't a country (barangay, island, province, region) not think correctly, properly, independently, collectively for the COMMON GOOD?
If EU or Japan or Australia provide project funding (seed bank or reforestation), must EU or Japan or Australia "babysit" us Filipinos? As adults that we are, our answer should be N-E-V-E-R!
This project is small-scale, because this is all one Filipino OFW could find after a one-week "search" with his limited budget in his 3-weeks vacation (Manila, Cebu, Bohol, Butuan, Surigao, Davao)!
Still, it's not the land size, but the WILLINGNESS to plant on it that must count and be given value!
If this one small project after 1 year fails, at least one Filipino OFW did not!
We should NEVER give up that easily!
Let's do SOMETHING!
Let's think OUT OF THE BOX!
Let's plant, even if land is not ours (get owner's permission perhaps?)!
Let's do it!
Let's find more REASONS to plant, than not to (even death, birth, lost tooth, graduation, job loss, etc.)!
For country and people!
:)
Lazir
Proud Filipino
P.S. - If we plant edible plants, vegetables, fruit trees on every VACANT LOT in the country, we will be LESS HUNGRY as a Nation! We will become a STRONGer Nation!
The Filipinos are poor, but the Philippines is not a poor country. (paraphrasing EU Ambassador McDonald)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
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