To pull off more performance and make up for the lost ones last year due to pandemic restrictions, the 2019-2020 graduating students of Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation, Incorporated (LSJFI) conducted a tree-planting activity in Tacdugan, San Jacinto, Masbate on July 7, 2021 spearheaded by Faustus Caesar Bagobe, LSJFI Student Affairs Services (SAS) Coordinator and Maricris Largo, the batch president. 200 seedlings of Banaba and Kamagong were planted by the students applying old hand and expert planting techniques taught by Glods Penuela, a farming consultant from Laguna City, who is an Electronics and Communications Engineer. Penuela, who is hired for a gardening and farming service at a resort nearby, offered for free her tree-planting supervision and farming and gardening tutorial during the tree-planting.
According to the SAS Coordinator, the students and the school officials concerned made it a point to materialize the tree-planting and, hopefully, some more activities this year since it is a practice in the school for the students to accomplish ample worthwhile extra-curricular endeavors before graduating.
Peter Villahermosa, an ALS teacher and Alvin de la Pena, LSJFI Information Technology department head, also helped in the planning and implementation of the said activity, which is an LSJFI’s commitment to serve and help in nurturing Ticao Island’s fauna as emphasized by Noe C. Esparrago, LSJFI Chief of Staff. He further stressed that such a mother-earth-saving activity is LSJFI’s part of its corporate social responsibility.
Other sets of graduating students of the school are scheduled to conduct their similar tree planting stints.