Members of the Zamboanga Fearless Mountaineering Society together with 25 children from the St. Francis Home for Orphaned Children did their heroic act to save the Mountain of Muruk in upper Abong Abong, in Zamboanga, when they recently undertook a two day tree planting activity.
It took a one and a half hour climb to reach the Muruk area on August 8, where zafmos together with the Junior zafmos kids, pitched their tents and began their preparations for the tree planting activity scheduled for the next day. Danny Tuazon and Jonathan Racho, came earlier to do the preparations of the site where some 152 trees were to be planted. Members of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office were kind enough to bring the 152 seedlings of mahogany trees for the tree planting activity.
Despite the 85 degree heat, the group went uncomplaining, to do their task of reforesting the area of Muruk, which has been left denuded because of kaingin encroachment in the area.
Jojo Nanquil and myself escorted the kids together with their house mother Maricel, who doubled as a cook for the entire gang. Feasting on fried eggs and sardines and of course the adobong chicken, was enough to give us the strength for the two day work...not to mention the 6 cases of Nestea donated by the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Zamboanga.
We look forward to more activities like this, because this is where mountaineering really can count.
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