Donate to the Garden City Fund

Singapore is widely known as the Garden City. Unless you already live in a forest, you will likely be pleasantly surprised when you touch down and pass through the gates. The Singapore government has spent considerable resources planting trees all around and basically keeping the island green. Such effort is easily evident as the flora certainly beautifies the surroundings. The Singapore Environment Council and the Garden City Fund, a registered charity, have jointly launched the Plant-A-Tree Programme. On the last Sunday of every month or on special days such as the World Environment Day or Earth Day, the public can now plant trees at designated parks or nature reserves. Planting trees does not come cheap though. To plant just one tree, you need to fork out S$200. You get a "discount" if you plant 10 trees which will set you back S$1,500. 50 trees will cost you $5,000. Personally, I feel that the minimum amount of 200 bucks is a deterrent in itself. $200 is no small sum of money to the general masses and one suggestion would be to open one-tenth or one-quarter shares to the public. It's like, people can choose to do their part for the environment by sponsoring one-tenth of a tree for 20 bucks. This will make the programme affordable to more people and even students who are not earning can participate. For details of the Plant-A-Tree Programme, check out www.gardencityfund.com.sg . You can also see a report from Channel NewsAsia here (mirrored here). If you have any queries, go ahead and push an email to Garden_City_Fund@NParks.gov.sg .