Telecoms firm to monitor Nat'l Greening Program

MANILA, Philippines - A telecommunications company will help in monitoring and meeting the target of planting 1.5 million trees under the government’s National Greening Program (NGP).

This is provided for in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed between Globe and the Foundation for Philippine Environment (FPE) recently.

Under the MOA, the Globe Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team shall provide Information and Communications Technology (ICT) support to FPE to enable the quick registration of the seedlings as well as allow ease of payment between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the participating people organizations and assisting non-government organizations (NGOs).

Roberto Nazal, Globe CSR Head, said, “Monitoring and evaluation of the whole effort will be enabled through Globe donation of mobile phones, and distribution of Globe Bridging Communities SIM cards with special discounted rates and the provision of a P5,000-monthly Text Connect facility for efficient and real-time monitoring of production, planning and maintenance progress.”

Globe will donate mobile phones and SIM cards to 380 indigenous people organizations, and NGOs as well as to 88 assisting NGOs and stakeholders in 51 provinces and 168 municipalities and cities engaged by FPE for NGP.