More than fulfilling its role of helping the country achieve its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets on eradicating extreme poverty, an alliance of cooperatives in Mindanao has also pledged to grow trees within the island-region’s heavily degraded watersheds and river basins.
Dubbed “Coops Love Green Earth”, an environment-care program of the Mindanao Alliance of Self-Help Societies – Southern Philippines Educational Cooperative Center (MASS-SPECC) Cooperative Development Center, the campaign aims to grow at least 6,000 trees covering 12 hectares all over the island-region in the next three years.
MASS-SPECC, a secondary cooperative federation with a network of 300 primary cooperatives, has recently partnered with the Mindanao Development Authority for the Mindanao Nurturing Our Waters (MindaNOW) program.
MindaNOW consolidates all efforts for the development and management of Mindanao’s watersheds and river basins. The program is aligned with the National Greening Program (NGP) which aims to grow 1.5 billion trees covering 1.5 million hectares across the country by 2016.
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