Georgian Railway Participates in Plant a Tree Campaign
Georgian Railway joined the Plant a Tree Yourself campaign taking place near the Guivi Zaldastanishvili American School at Lisi Lake on May 27 in Tbilisi.
Launching a new campaign together with Biblus Books and Makuliteratura, the Georgian Railway company representatives and their family members planted trees on the land in order to raise awareness of environmental issues.
The campaign challenges companies to recycle rather than throw away their paper waste. In exchange for paper waste sent by the companies to be recycled by Makuliteratura, a tree will then be planted.
“Georgian Railway is the first partner organization to join our initiative and we decided to plant a certain amount of trees every year in the name of those organizations who work to actively protect the environment by not wasting paper,” said Mariam Machavariani, the manager of the project.
The Plant a Tree Yourself campaign launch was dedicated to the fifth anniversary of Makuliteratura, a company that encourages individuals to exchange used paper and old books for new ones, thus giving them a chance to enrich their libraries.
“I would like to thank Palitra, which always surprises us with amazing projects,” said Dachi Tsaguria, Deputy Director of the Passenger Transfer Branch at Georgian Railway. “It’s the fifth anniversary of their Makuliteratura project, and it was the Makuliteratura initiative not to throw used paper in the trash but to collect it instead and receive wonderful books in exchange. Georgian Railway joined the campaign with great pleasure. We collect used paper in our company, and take it to Makuliteratura for them to publish new books with. Today, we brought tree saplings from our own nursery to make this beautiful place, Lisi Lake, even greener with our joint efforts. We’re asking other companies to join us and make our city beautiful”.
“We started this project five years ago, when we made a call out for everyone to bring us any old books, paper or cardboard which we would then exchange for literature,” said Marika Darchia, Creative Director at Palitra. “There has been consistent high interest throughout and we managed to save a lot of trees. We’ve also planted trees many times, and will keep doing so. Our thanks go to Georgian Railway for joining our campaign”.
Georgian Railway continues to be actively involved in CSR activities and plans to plant 50 cypress trees near Lisi Lake.
“This is a very important action for railway workers, for our country and for Tbilisi. With it, Georgian Railway supports beauty and life, as the tree symbolizes life. All railway workers participated in the activity with pleasure. It will continue, and will always be supported by Georgian Railway, as the railway itself is an ecologically clean transport,” said Tengiz Tabidze, Head of Signalization Department at Georgian Railway.
Nino Gugunishvili