THE school-based environment group called the Bacolod City College (BCC) Advocates for Kalikasan: Unifying, Restoring, Augmenting and Nurturing (Bakuran) held a tree planting activity at the BCC Sum-ag campus recently.
The activity was held in culminating the celebration of the environment month of June, calling the occasion as the “Arbor Day” last June 26.
About a hundred students and faculty of the BCC including the officers and members of the other campus student’s organizations joined the activity.
Bakuran president, Jabel Dalumpines, DENR-Western Visayas green educator, who is also the president of the BCC-Marketing Management Society (MMS) said, the celebration aims to “instill in the college community especially to the students the advocacy of giving importance to the preservation of a balance and healthful environment in harmony with nature.”
Bakuran believes the vital role of trees and its importance to ecological stability and to combat the loss of our natural resources and rejuvenate the environment and its sustainability.
“Though the activity was a simple planting of tree seedlings, yet it invokes a long term values of appreciating ecological stability”, he added.
Dalumpines said the activity will be institutionalized by establishing the Bakuran Nursery inside the schools backyard.
BCC administrator Dr. Ma. Johanna Ann Bayoneta, founder of Bakuran said, that the event will not end up by just planting a tree, she emphasized the unity, restoration, augmentation and nurturing as what Bakuran stands for.
The signing of memorandum of agreement or MOA on “PLASTRICT-Plastic Free BCC” was made possible last June 26, 2019 with Dr. Ma. Johanna Ann R. Bayoneta College Administrator,
Dr. Elias Alias, dean of Instruction; Mrs. Mary Jane Alunan Student Affairs Services coordinator (SAS); Mr. Renielle Abayon, SAS staff; and author of the initiative “PLASTRICT-Plastic Free BCC,” faculty member Mrs. Junalyn Canoy-Libiran, Mr. Efren Lanase, program chair of the College of Business Education and Engr. Valentino Argel, program chair of the College of Industrial Technology and officers of the organization and clubs.
The purpose of the MOA is to set forth the terms and conditions, scope of work and responsibilities of the parties associated with their collaboration on PLASTRICT program of Bacolod City College with the overall objective of putting awareness and campaign to all stakeholders/organizations/offices about the minimization and eventually to eradicate the use of single-use plastics in Bacolod City College and also in support of the Bacolod City Ordinance.