Just a couple of weeks back, some 21 of us from NUS IT volunteered their time on a bright and sunny Saturday morning to do some good for the environment and to “bond” with Mother Nature. Together with our Green Campus Unit from University Campus Infrastructure and their contractors, we managed to plant some trees! Go planet!

Getting Ready

Organised by NUS IT Funclub, the “NUS IT Tree Planting Volunteer Activity” was about team bonding, fun exercising, safety-managed (with 0 reported injuries!), perspiration- and laughter-filled morning all rolled into one!

Doing the work

We realised that planting a tree wasn’t as simple as it looks but all of us ‘office dwellers’ and urbanites were determined to get the job done. We had to familiarise ourselves with farming (instead of all-familiar digital) tools to complete the task put before us. Thankfully, our skilled contractors showed us the tips and tricks to tree planting and made our task a whole lot easier!

Finishing up

Seeing the smile on our volunteer’s faces throughout the entire activity, I can confidently say that all of us enjoyed ourselves tremendously and we have surely deepened our appreciation and respect for the work that our contractors had put in to fill our campus and country with lush and greenery that we are greeted with every day.

Completed!

Finally, a big thank you to all our volunteers, the Funclub and the Green Campus unit for giving us this special opportunity to contribute something to the landscape of our future office! 🎉🎉🥳🥳

CITO Ms Tan Shui-Min

Note: You can find out more about our new plant neighbours! Here is a poster filled with some information, do check it out!

The 10k tree initiative was started way back in 2018 and since then, NUS have completed the programme. In order to sequester more carbon as part of the new Carbon Neutral programme, UCI’s Green Campus unit have then initiated to plant another 90k trees which will contribute 10% to the Nparks One Million Trees initiative by 2030.