By Malou Navio, Antipolo project coordinator Project staff and
CFCA families in the Antipolo project respond to the call to
care for our Mother Earth by caring for our local environment
through a program we call Clean and Green. Clean and Green
enhances CFCA sponsorship for our sponsored individuals and
their families. The Antipolo project uses ongoing training,
lectures and discussion to incorporate Clean and Green into
spirituality and way of life and to encourage families to
consider the ecosystem. As CFCA farming families learn
irrigation methods for rice paddies and corn growing, more and
more are gradually shifting away from the kaingin (slash and
burn) way of farming. The families in urban areas promote waste
management by reducing, reusing and recycling. To reinforce this
practice, we do not use disposable cups, plates or utensils;
plastic wrappers; straws; and Styrofoam during our activities.
Our sponsored children, youth, their parents and the aging in
kapitbahayans (small, caring communities) devot