KGCP, students join hands in ‘growing trees’

Mining firm King-king Copper-Gold Project (KCGP) and students of the Nestor Fausta Memorial College, Inc. (NFMCI) partnered in a tree-planting activity in Pantukan, Compostela Valley last May 22.
Placing more importance on “growing trees rather than planting”, KCGP and NFMCI signed a memorandum of agreement and agreed to do more activities in the future that would sustain the growth of the planted trees.
The activity started with a short program which was attended by Brgy Capt and newly-elected Pantukan mayor Roberto “Ondoy” Yugo of Brgy Kingking; Rogelio Hermo, OIC- CENRO-Maco; Petronilo Cancino, Operations Manager – KCGP; Debbie Ruth Yasay, Environment and Permitting Manager – KCGP; Jonathan Baňez, Community Relations and Development Unit Head – KCGP; Lenna Mae Leopoldo, Environmental Scientist – KCGP; and Philip Noel Garrote, Environmental Management and Monitoring Specialist.
Mayor-elect Yugo appreciated the effort of the school and the prompt response of KCGP for the said climate-change-derailing activity.
Hermo on his part associated the celebration of Ocean Month (May) with the tree planting activity. He pointed out to the student-participants that whatever we do in our lands will generally affect our oceans and the creatures living under, as the water flowing from uplands will definitely reach our seas.
Cancino thanked the school administration and its students for making KCGP their partner. He said that the company is committed to support environment protection programs and will never get tired of doing it. 
He also thanked the opportunity of sharing to the young generation the proper technology in planting. He emphasized that the company targets not just planting but on how to grow and sustain trees. That it is not on how many trees you plant but on how many trees you grow.
Joed James Daguman, an alumnus of NFMCI, who also participated in the activity, praised KCGP’s involvement in preserving and protecting the environment and the knowledge they share to stakeholders in areas where they would operate. He was taught on the planting site the proper way of handling the seedlings and on how to plant it. [BOT]