Planting Hope in the Desert; Mentoring Youths in the Heartlands
May 5, 2010
The Chinese proverb says, Plant Trees to enjoy the Fruits for a Decade; Nurture Young Lives and Impact the Century!
Keith and Joyce, two of AJ’s most enthusiastic green volunteers, believe in this and have been leading the charge with the Green Desert youth meetings from the first Sunday of the New Year in 2010.
A group of boys and girls from the Heartlands in Tiong Bahru attended the training session where they learnt about the Great Green Wall project.
Another hundred Cub Scouts joined the Green Desert Kids Club programme on Mar 27 at the Bedok Reservoir as we prepared them to observe Earth Hour that evening through learning about Trees Alive.
Keith and Joyce will prepare and lead a team of 20 youths and NUS undergraduates to Inner Mongolia in Jun 2010 to plant trees at the Asian Journeys tree-planting site. This is part of Asian Journeys’ endeavour to join the county government and villagers as they combat desertification over the past decade.
During our visit in April 2010, we experienced sandstorm as the entire county and grassland was ravaged by sand dust blown in from the north. Much the sandstorm this year was carried as far as Wuhan and Taiwan as well as Hong Kong.
At Asian Journeys, we aim to plant 5000 trees over the next 3 years and raise S$10 for each Zhangzisong (fir) sapling we plant.
Corporate sponsorship will be welcomed as much as individual donations towards the youths’ efforts to build the GREAT GREEN WALL of China through planting millions of trees to stop the encroaching desert dunes from engulfing the grasslands.
JOIN US…Participate in your own ways…
As we plant trees in the desert and nurture youths in the heartlands, we invite you to partner us and invest in our next 10 years, …or is it the next 100 years?!
And the Trees of the Fields will clap their hands!!
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