In Haiti, World Environment Day Means Planting Trees

Ahead of World Environment Day, a group of Haitian young professionals put into practice a famous line uttered by former U.S. president John F. Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural address: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." With the help of the local Rotary Club's Rotaract group, 6,000 trees were given to the town of Beret, a community in Haiti's south that suffered heavy damage during Hurricane Matthew in...

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