Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Trees of Life

Giving hope by means of tree planting is a guarantee of good life and clean air for the next generation. Caring for our environment is another way of giving extended life especially  to people suffering from health diseases like asthma, bronchi pneumonia, cancer of the lungs, etc. Being asthmatic, I am now more concern on protecting our environment especially on air causing pollutants. That’s why I am appealing to our agriculture sector to think of ways on how they can properly dispose the rice husk and straw without doing the traditional way of burning and turning it into dust. They must think of other alternative ways or other potential on how it turn into a fertilizer, ethanol or think of other useful things for its usage. Burning it will cause so many hazards on our environment particularly on the air we breathe. We need to adopt the present trend of technology without sacrificing the protection of our environment. The toxic from the air we breathe today are contributing factor to our health and cause hazardous effect.

The activity is initiated by the National Greening Program (NGP) in support by the City Government. It is embodied in Executive Order No. 26 signed on February 24, 2011, is a priority endeavor to bring back the lost forest cover of the country. There are about eight million hectares of denuded areas nationwide. The goals are to plant billions of trees. By planting trees, the government hopes to mitigate the effects of climate change, protect biodiversity, stop erosion, restore watersheds, and ensure food security. Degraded land will become productive and provide additional income for rural families.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A Woman in Progress

When the wind of trials blow parallel to your direction, you have nothing to do but to stand firm and hold on to your faith that God will never leave a woman on fight without a weapon to survive. There are things occur in life that sometimes really test our leadership ability on handling difficult situation. When the storm subsides, you will then start to assess the damage right away. Take all the broken pieces ruined by the wind and patiently try to pick-up the pieces into one. It may never be back on the same form again but what matters most is you learn how to handle the situation without losing your trust on Him. Don’t be afraid of what everybody else think of you, remember that the paths of life we take are long and hard, but those hard path we walk though are the ones that might lead us to the most beautiful views of life.  At the end of the road, there are still many dreams waiting to be realized.