Laau Soifua Maloloina, Tamaiti Soifua Maloloina!

I le aso 6 o Oketopa, 2012, o le Canopy, o se vaega e le o ni polofiti i le lotoifale, ma le sui o le California ReLeaf Network, e tuuto atu i le totoina o laau mo nuu maloloina, o le a aumaia faatasi vaega autasi ma nuu volenitia e toto 120 paolo ma fualaau aina. I le galulue faʻatasi ma Microsoft Corp., Odwalla Plant-A-Tree, Cal Fire's Urban and Community Forestry Program, ma le tele o faʻavae, Canopy o le a fesoasoani e fausia ni nofoaga sili atu le soifua maloloina, lanumeamata, ma sili atu le valaʻaulia mo le silia ma le 500 tamaiti i Brentwood Academy ma 350 i Ronald McNair Academy i East Palo Alto.

 

E sili atu i le 100 kamupani ma tagata volenitia o loʻo faʻamoemoe e tuʻuina atu lima i le aso atoa o le totoina o laʻau. O lenei totōina o le a fesoasoani i le faʻalauteleina o le sini o Canopy's "Laau Soifua Maloloina, Tamaiti Soifua Maloloina!" fuafuaga.

 

"O le sini o le fuafuaga o le totoina o le 1,000 laau mo tamaiti i le 2015 ma amata tapunia le 'ava lanumeamata' i le va o nuu maumea ma le le tagolima," o le tala lea a Catherine Martineau, faatonu sili o Canopy.

 

Ona o taumafaiga a Canopy, e 850 tamaiti aʻoga tulagalua ma aʻoga tulagalua ile Brentwood Academy ma Ronald McNair Academy o le a faʻamanuiaina mai le tele o faʻamanuiaga tuusaʻo ma le le tuusaʻo e maua mai e laau. O fa'amanuiaga tu'usa'o e aofia ai le ea mama ma le vai, puipuiga mai 'ave leaga o le UV ma a'afiaga lelei fa'ale-mafaufau e feso'ota'i ma le vavalalata o si'osi'omaga fa'anatura. O fa'amanuiaga lē tu'usa'o e aofia ai le ola malosi e feso'ota'i atu i le fa'ateleina o gaioiga i fafo, lea e fesoasoani e puipuia ai le puta o tamaiti ma le ma'i suka.

 

O ituaiga laau paolo e totō e aofia ai Forest Green Oak, Cork Oak, Valley Oak, Southern Live Oak, Bosque Elm, ma Silver Linden, o mea uma ia e fa'apalepale i lamala ma fetaui lelei mo le tau o lenei itulagi. O ituaiga laau aina o le a aofia ai le avoka, sapote, ma le tele o citruses.

 

O le Bosque Elms o le a totoina e faʻaaoga ai le 'DriWater' o se taimi fou e faʻasaʻo ai vaifofo e mafai ona faʻaoga nai lo le faʻafefe masani e faʻasao vai ma sefe i tau faʻapipiʻi.

 

I le aoauli, i le va o le taeao ma le aoauli o le totoina o sifi, o le a faʻapotopotoina volenitia i luma o le Brentwood Academy mo se sauniga faʻapipiʻi laau ma se ata faʻatasi ma sui filifilia, faʻatoʻaga sponsors ma sui o le Ravenswood School District.

 

Lisi atoa o 2012 lagolago a Canopy's Healthy Trees, Healthy Kids! Initiative: Cal Fire Urban and Community Forestry, Microsoft, Odwalla Plant-A-Tree, Morgan Family Foundation, Sand Hill Foundation, The Dean Witter Foundation, Peery Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Patagonia, Palo Alto Community Foundation, le David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Alliance for Community Trees, Change Happens Foundation, Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, California ReLeaf, National NeighborWoods Month.