Globe supports ‘rainforestation’ effort
GLOBE Telecom is stepping up its “rainforestation” effort in partnership with Hineleban Foundation, which now covers 34 hectares in Bukidnon. The leading telecommunications provider committed to donate P30 million within of Lanao del Sur.
Currently, the 34 hectares are being planted with Brazilian and Caribbean pine trees and other indigenous tree species. The re households from surrounding communities in Sitio Bagalangit and Barangay Kalugmanan, Manolo Fortich. The next phase will commence this year and will Baylanan in Talakag, Bukidnon.
4,800 hectares target area
The 300 hectares of denuded primary rainforests that will be cov support form part of the 4,896 hectares total target area of “rainforestation” by Hineleban Foundation in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur. Hineleban Foundation’s “rainforestation” program will be 2016 to December 2021. It will follow the rainforestation model methodology that has three major components: reforestation, food security, and sustainable livelihood development.
Urooj Malik, chairman and - ban Foundation, welcomed Globe Telecom’s commitment to step up support. “There is an urgent call to action in the Philippines. To date, the country is down to less than 1.8 percent of primary forest cover since the 1970s due to massive environment degradation caused by
kaingin [slash and burn farming], rapid conversion of rainforest into farms, massive logging op the environmental crisis we are facing today, we are thankful ways to grow while protecting our environment,” Malik said.
Hineleban Foundation is a non-stock, non-profit organization based in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon. The group is composed of individuals focused on the restoration of the environment and sustainable livelihood for the Lumads and the Bangsamoro through Transformational Business Partnerships, with the objective of fostering peace through inclusive development.
The foundation believes that “rainforestation” of the mountains of Mindanao is the only long-term solution to reducing the effects and risks of climate change and attain back three crop cycles per year.
Globe Telecom’s P30 million donation to Hineleban Foundation will be funded in part by the fees collected from postpaid mobile and broadband customers who continue to use paper billing. In 2015, the company launched its paperless billing campaign to contribute to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal of Life on Land – centered on protecting, restoring and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.
While majority of the company’s customers have already shifted to paperless billing, there are still those who prefer to receive paper bills. These customers will help fund the reforestation program and indirectly will be able to participate in the company’s green initiative.