Philippine diocese vows to plant 1.2 million trees
Flood-stricken diocese partners with government and civic groups in reforestation project
A family sit on the roof of their home to escape floodwater brought by Super Typhoon Goni in Albay province in the Philippines on Nov. 1, 2020. (Photo supplied)
An archdiocese in the northern Philippines is to plant more than 1 million trees using government-donated saplings in a reforestation project in response to two super typhoons that ravaged Cagayan province late last year.
In a project called Missio 500, organizers in Tuguegarao Archdiocese are looking for churchgoers to plant the trees in 500 days.
“Missio 500 is an ecology initiative that aims to plant 500 trees per day in Tuguegarao Archdiocese together with its suffragan dioceses, namely Ilagan, Bayombong, Tabuk and Batanes. These dioceses suffered great floods during the typhoons in 2020,” the archdiocese said on social media.