Tabuk youth end leadership seminar with tree planting
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga - Adding environmental impact to their
three-day leadership seminar, more than 140 students and out-of-school youth
(OSY) of Tabuk had a tree planting activity here last week.
The activity concluded the
Youth Leadership Seminar (YLS) conducted by the Alpha Company of the Army’s
503rd Infantry Brigade stationed in the province to student leaders from
Nambaran Agro-Industrial National High School (NANHS), Agbanawag National High
School and OSYs in this city.
YLS Coordinator Gilbert
Tadiuan reported that under the program, the Army trains selected youth
representatives in leadership skills with the theme: Kabataan Nasa Kamay mo ang
Pagbabago”.
This is in line with the
Army’s Oplan Bayanihan Program, a community-based program drawing closer
Army-civilian partnership in the Army’s area of assignment, he elaborated.
After the seminar,
organizers coordinated with the Community Environment and
Natural Resources Office of Tabuk City, which provided the coffee and mahogany
seedlings in the tree planting activity at the NANHS lot in Sitio Eleb, Tabuk.
As young community leaders,
participants were taught to be stewards of the environment and be involved in
community projects like helping in the protection of trees and preservation of
forests and watersheds in their areas.
The participants were
encouraged to provide follow-up care to the seedlings they planted to assure the
growth of new trees in the site. (Larry Lopez/JDP/LL-PIA CAR, Kalinga)
