As part of the “Youth Solidarity Against Extremism and Promoting a Culture of Tolerance” project, funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in cooperation with the Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training (LOST), project participants celebrated Lebanese Independence Day in their own way by planting hundreds of pine trees in different villages in Baalbeck-Hermel.
The project team at Ersal planted 100 pine trees at a public park. On the same day, participants also planted an additional 100 pine trees in the cemetery of Al Qasr town in Hermel district. Also, 50 seedlings of the pine trees were planted at Ras Baalbek Reserve and Al-Labweh Secondary School. Independence Day celebrations stretched to Bedneyel and Qsarnaba, where YSAE youth planted around 100 pine trees along the villages’ roads.
These initiatives had a huge impact on the volunteers who participated in the process on one hand, and on the citizens who showed appreciation and joy on the other. This project has planted the seed of development and inspiration in Lebanon’s youth, who are in return planting seeds of life in the country where citizens can flourish.
