Orange Sierra Leone, in partnership with Youth Alliance and Initiative for Innovation and Environmental Development, has ended the Environment, Health and Safety Week by planting 3000 trees where the Mudslide occurred at Mortomeh Community in Regent, on5th May, 2023.
The move was geared towards reducing flood risks as well as land and mudslides.
Loss of trees has directly affected catchment are as for watered serves, exacerbating the risks of landslides, flooding, and coastal erosion, and the loss of tree and vegetation coverall so threat ensbiodiversity.
Giving an overview, the Public Relations Officer OSL, Mabel Mason said the week was set aside as part of their commitment towards preserving and ensuring that the environment was from climate change.
The weeks he went on was also meant to raise a warenes samong their staff, stakeholders and the county about the impact of damaging the environment, and how that can badly affect their operations.
She highlighted that, at the start of the week, they were taken through by an Environmental Protection Agency Representative on environmental health and safety, and host so fother engagements throughout the week.
‘’This is a call to action for all, as long as you are a human being. The environment does not need us to survive, to succeed, to continue, we need the environment on the contrary. We cannot survive without the environment, but the environment can survive with out you.’’
She maintained that, everyone has there sponsibility to preserve the environment, do things that will encourage the continuation of human existence, and how they must not burn trees, and how if they cut down one tree, they must ensure that they plant ten more trees.
She furthered that; they must ensure they dispose the irref use the right way. She Advised that, they must do all they can by preserving the environment, according to her, by doing so; they are also preserving their own lives.
National Olympic Committee President, Prince Sualley, commended the company for such a laudable venture, continuing that, they must ensure to protect the environment to prevent natural disaster slike the mudslide that occurred in August14th, 2017.
He stated that other companies ororganization should emulate such venture, stating how the environment needs to be preserved for human existence to continue.
Chief Lansana Kamara, there sidual chief in the Mortomeh community, applauded the company for undertaking the tree planting exercise. He also lamented the death of the people who died in the mudslide.