The “Green City” project is underway in Caserta, promoted by the Diocesan Pastoral Council of Health in collaboration with Colonel Marilena Scudieri, Commander of the Investigative Unit of the Environmental, Agri-food and Forestry Police of Caserta, immediately embraced by the Director Adele Vairo for the Manzoni High School. An important initiative aimed at increasing the spread of urban greenery, for the well-being of the community and which is part of the National Project “A tree for the future”, promoted by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. The main objective of the initiative is to increase the presence of tall trees in the city of Caserta, with a series of tangible benefits for the environment and the quality of life of citizens. The “Manzoni” high school in Caserta immediately joined the project, opening an important institutional collaboration with the forestry Carabinieri.
“A tree for the future – explains Commander Scudieri Marilena – is an ambitious project which involves the donation and planting of approximately 500 thousand seedlings in Italian schools, starting a process of dialogue with the young generation with the aim of increasing awareness of the The importance of trees for the containment of climate change and for the importance of environmental protection. The delivery to the students of a tree symbolizing civil commitment and the fight against crime, the tree of judge Giovanni Falcone, Ficus Macrophylla, an example that grows near the home of the judge murdered in 1992 by the mafia and on which the citizens of Palermo , following the massacre, they spontaneously placed handwritten notes, expressing condemnation of the mafias and solidarity with the magistrate who fought them. The collaboration between the Carabinieri, the Falcone Foundation, the Superintendence and the Municipality of Palermo has allowed the duplication of the buds from the symbolic tree, to reproduce the tree, generating small cuttings to be donated to schools, raising awareness among children on the topic of civil commitment and on that of education on environmental legality, as a prevention tool to understand and fight environmental crimes”.
“The planting of the Talea Ficus Macrophylla – dedicated to Magistrate Giovanni Falcone – which took place on Monday 22 April, at the Manzoni Campus in itself implies not only the planting of a seedling, but also the planting of great values and essential ideals : justice, ethics, love, honesty, family, respect, fairness”, declared DS Adele Vairo. And again: “a symbolic gesture, which, however, aims to represent the concrete commitment of the community – from Caserta and ‘Manzoni’ – in building a more sustainable and green future. The first of a long series of project actions, which the “Manzoni” high school will share, as well as with the Diocesan Pastoral Council, also with the Caserta forestry Carabinieri, contributing, over time, to creating “a small forest” made up of young plants planted planted by the students in the large spaces of the institute and which will be visible on a special web platform made available by the Army which will monitor the growth of the specimens and the storage of CO2. The mission is to provide students with an important opportunity to expand their scientific knowledge, in the orbit of bio-sustainability and, at the same time, increasingly making the Manzoni Campus a “green lung” available to the territory and the community. To the Bishop of the Diocese of Caserta Monsignor Pietro Lagnese and to Don Antonello Giannotti, our thanks for their precious support”.
