Nā Kūʻai Kūʻai Kūʻai ʻo Sandals Foundation i nā kumulāʻau 1000 i ka hanohano o ka lā honua

I ka hanohano o ka Lā Honua, ka Kahua Kamaa, ka lima philanthropic o Sandals Resorts International (SRI), kono i nā malihini kipa ma waena o kāna waihona Karipiano e hui pū i ke kanu kokoke i 1,000 mau lāʻau ʻai i ka lā hoʻokahi. Ma ka lā 21 ʻApelila, ua kākoʻo hou ka hanana kanu kumulāʻau nui i ka misionari makahiki a ka Foundation no ka pae ʻāina. mālama paleʻai e hōʻoia i ka hoʻomau ʻana o nā huahana kūloko i nā kula a me nā kaiāulu no nā hanauna e hiki mai ana. Coined "Trees for Life," ua kono pū ka hoʻolaha i nā hāʻawi pūnaewele ma ka lā 22 ʻApelila.

"He mea koʻikoʻi ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka meaʻai a me ka hana mahiʻai no ka hōʻoia ʻana i ka loaʻa ʻana o nā meaʻai kūloko hou no kā mākou kaiāulu Caribbean no nā makahiki e hiki mai ana," wahi a Heidi Clarke, Luna Hoʻokele o ka Sandals Foundation. “Ka Nā lāʻau no ke ola Hōʻike ka hoʻolaha i kā mākou hoʻohiki hoʻomau i ka mālama ʻana i ke kaiapuni ma ke ʻano he hui, ʻoiai e hoʻoikaika ana i nā kaiāulu Caribbean me nā mea hana a me nā kumuwaiwai kūlohelohe e hoʻokō ai i kā lākou mau meaʻai.

I ka wā o ka hoʻolālā ʻana o ka hoʻāla ʻana, ua hoʻonohonoho ka Foundation i kahi pahuhopu e kanu i nā kumulāʻau 500.

ʻO ka hoʻoikaika nui a nā Sandals and Beaches Resorts Team Members e hōʻuluʻulu i nā lālā o ke kaiāulu i hiki ai i ka hui ke aneane pālua i kēlā pahuhopu.

Ke hele nei i 1,000 mau ʻanuʻu i mua, kūkulu ʻia ka hoʻolaha ʻo "Trees for Life" ma luna o ke kanu ʻana i nā kumulāʻau o nā makahiki i hala. I ka makahiki 2021, ka Ua hoʻohiki ʻo Sandals Foundation e kanu i nā kumulāʻau 10,000 a puni ka Caribbean, ʻaʻole wale i ka hoʻokō wikiwiki ʻana i kēlā pahuhopu, akā hoʻonui ʻia ma luna o ia e nā kumulāʻau 10,000 hou aʻe i 2022. Me ka huina o 16,284 o 20,000 mau kumulāʻau i kanu ʻia, ke hoʻomau nei ke ala i ka hālāwai ʻana i kāna hoʻohiki ʻelua ma o ka hoʻolaha ʻo "Trees for Life" o ka Honua. . 

Hōʻike nā mea kanu meaʻai i kahi koho Caribbean maoli - soursop, guava, avocado, cherry, plantain, a me ka maiʻa - kūʻai ʻia mai nā keʻena ulu lāʻau a me nā kahu hānai. Mohala ʻana i loko o ʻelua mau makahiki, ua hoʻonohonoho pono ʻia nā kumulāʻau ma nā wahi i hiki ke komo i ke kaiāulu a me nā kula e hoʻolako i nā kumuwaiwai meaʻai no nā haumāna a puni, nā ʻohana, a me nā kamaʻāina like. 

Ke hoʻopukapuka hou aku nei i ka mahiʻai Karipiano, ʻo Sandals Resorts a me Beaches Resorts ke kumu a hiki i ka 90% o kāna lako meaʻai ma ka ʻāina. I kēia mau makahiki i hala iho nei, ua hāʻawi nā hale hoʻokipa i nā haʻawina like ʻole i nā mea hana meaʻai Karipiano, hāʻawi i nā lako i ke kula ʻo Agricultural Training College ma Barbados, ke kūkulu ʻana i nā ʻāpana hydroponic a me ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana ma Antigua's Gilbert Agricultural and Rural Development Center, a me ka hoʻokumu ʻana i nā hana composting kaiāulu me nā hōkele. Eia hou, ua kākoʻo ka Foundation i ka Grenada Network of Rural Women Producers (GRENROP), he hui o 65 mau wahine kūloko a me nā ʻōpio pilikia e hōʻike ana i ko lākou kūʻokoʻa kālā ma o ka mahiʻai.

Hiki i nā malihini e hele ana i Sandals Resorts a me Beaches Resorts ke hana ikaika i ke kākoʻo ʻana i nā hana palekana meaʻai o ka Sandals Foundation i kēlā me kēia lā o ka makahiki e "hoʻopaʻa ʻana no kekahi kumu” a me ka lawe ʻana mai i ʻelima paona o nā puke moʻolelo a i ʻole nā ​​​​puke hana e uhi ana i nā kumuhana o ka ʻai olakino, ka māla ʻana, a me ke koʻikoʻi o nā kumulāʻau.

Hiki ke hāʻawi ʻia nā haʻawina o ka Lā Honua ma ke kipa ʻana https://www.sandalsfoundation.org/donation a me ke kohoʻana “Laau no ke Ola” i ka papa kuhikuhi hāʻule iho, me kēlā me kēia haʻawina he $20 ka hopena o ke kanu ʻana a me ka mālama ʻana i hoʻokahi lāʻau ʻai.