Central Philippine University aims for campus sustainability and environmental awareness.

Answering the call to save mother earth – the Central Philippine University National Service Training Program Civil Welfare Training Service planted 101 narra trees around the campus and in the proposed location for the university eco-park on March 3, 2018 at the CPU Campus.

The activity was held in line with the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia approved Bamboo Grant project entitled “Institutionalization of Campus Sustainability Program” of Mr. Prim Vergara III, Technical Assistant to the President and Occupational Safety and Health Officer.

According to Mr. Vergara, the activity sought to promote a greener and livelier CPU Campus. “When these trees grow into a full grown tree then we have contributed an oxygen supply for 303 people. Thank you so much to Mr. Fred Salvania and Ms. Jocelyn Funtecha for the support they gave to the sustainable campus program of the University and to the men and woman of the Campus Grounds Maintenance Department who fully assisted the students in their tree planting activity.”

As part of the said project, Rev. Francis Neil G. Jalando-on, Director, Office of Communications, placed environmental awareness tarpaulins along the Centennial Walkway and Halfmoon Drive areas. The tarpaulins contain bible verses emphasizing stewardship of God’s creation and quotations from his Seeds of Faith devotional letters.

The project noted the Philippine’s global ranking in terms of disaster risk. The project seeks to provide programs on climate mitigation and disaster risk reduction management. The project will implement a campus sustainability program as part of the whole person education to provide a regional campus model for environment stewardship. The program will include among others, benchmarking and production of videos and teaching modules for the University community and other schools.