SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Friday, the educational centers of the Canary Islands experienced a day of tribute and environmental awareness with the ‘Reforest hope’ initiative, consisting of a massive planting of trees to counteract the effects of the fire that this summer affected the island of Tenerife.
The action, which took place simultaneously in the almost a thousand centers that make up the public network of the Islands, had its epicenter in the Tenerife CEIP of Aguamansa, in the municipality of La Orotava, one of the most affected by the fire.
The Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, Poli Suárez, went there, who, accompanied by the Councilor for Agriculture and Livestock and Town Festivals, Alexis Pacheco, participated in the initiative along with students and staff from the center. .
‘Reforest hope’ is part of the protocol that, before the start of the 2023/2024 academic year, the Ministry designed to welcome students from the centers in the area affected by the fire, one of the most serious in the history of the Canary Islands. with thousands of hectares burned and people displaced from their homes for several days, Suárez recalled.
The Ministry defends a united Canary Islands, an educational community that integrates a single family, and that is why, now, with this proposal, it extends that protocol to the rest of the Archipelago. To contribute to this objective, all senior officials of the Ministry have been in different centers on the eight Islands. Likewise, during the event the schoolchildren recited a tenth composed for the occasion by the verser Yeray Rodríguez.
SOW A SEED
“We organized this symbolic act with the idea of planting the seed of resilience in our students,” said the general director of Teaching Planning, Inclusion and Innovation, David Pablos, whose department has promoted this action within the Ministry of Education.
‘Reforesting hope’ will later become a pedagogical resource for “the activation of dynamics that can be designed and adapted to the context of each participating center.”
“It is not a specific action, but a significant and symbolic activity that will continue: although one of the eight islands has burned, we do not lose hope and we must remain united,” adds the general director, who has announced an even broader project and ambitious to train students in fire prevention and continue reforestation.
