Eco-stewardship

Friday’s Gospel discussed about stewardship, genuine/sincere/honest service for the Lord and his people.

Pope Francis, in his encyclical, Laudato Si, called on all to be stewards of God’s earth.

How would you like to be God’s eco-steward, ensuring that his earth is kept sustainably protected through time?

With global warming/climate change alerts, calling everyone to keep global temperature from rising so as not to harm people/planet, would you like to do your share and be eco-stewards?

Yesterday, DSWD was reported as aiming to gear its ayuda to be more development-oriented.

We sincerely hope sustainable development will be linked to the DSWD’s ayuda/welfare/ assistance for the poor and needy.

Can DSWD consider this suggestion of involving DSWD beneficiaries as eco-stewards, all of their 4.5 million 4Ps beneficiaries, or even just the bottom one million beneficiaries of their Food Stamp Program?

Simply, DSWD can start by encouraging all their beneficiaries to help take care of the earth, themselves and others through simply taking care and managing their kitchen/other household wastes!

How? We suggest first our AGAPE campaign --A Garden in Every Ecosystem.

Each DSWD beneficiary, as an eco-steward, will be trained to convert their kitchen wastes into compost, into fertile soil, that will allow each beneficiary to raise their own household vegetables/herbs/trees!

Can you imagine 1 or 4.5 million DSWD beneficiaries growing their own gardens?

Within two to three months, be amazed to see 1-4.5 million households raising their own food, herbs for their health, trees to provide them much-needed oxygen and which will absorb problematic carbon dioxide?

Once each beneficiary will learn how to convert their kitchen/food/yard wastes into compost and grow food, flower, fruit, herbal gardens, they are set up for life!

No one among them will ever grow hungry again because they are now raising their own food supply!

By being an eco-steward, by simply managing their kitchen wastes, their food supply is sustainably assured!

If millions do composting from kitchen wastes, imagine the steady food supply that DSWD eco-stewards will contribute to themselves, their communities, to our country, and the whole world!

By being eco-stewards, DSWD beneficiaries will remove their household waste away from dumpsites/landfills.

With less organic waste disposed of in dumpsites/landfills, DSWD beneficiaries will save millions of pesos spent and wasted on waste!

The millions of pesos that DSWD beneficiaries will save from their household wastes not collected and disposed of in dumpsites/landfills can be saved for more welfare benefits, more ayuda to beneficiaries in exchange for their eco-stewardship!

By simply managing their kitchen wastes into compost gardens, DSWD eco-stewards can help avoid global warming and climate change, help fight hunger and poverty, help promote good health and well-being, create healthy, enabling environments and communities, and other sustainable development goals!

DSWD eco-stewards will contribute to sustainable development and help ensure a prosperous, protected, peaceful planet for people, through their partnership!

Not only through AGAPE, if the 1-4.5 million DSWD eco-stewards can also be encouraged to do DEO (daily eco-offering/waste segregation), for example, save their plastics and make ecobricks, one individual put all personal and household plastics (sachets, grocery bags, styro, single use plastics --SUPs-- etc.) in one used pet bottle, think of how much plastic wastes can be kept away from rivers and other water bodies!

One used PET bottle can hold from 50-100 more single use plastics.

Imagine the millions of SUPs inside ecobricks produced by the 1-4.5 million DSWD beneficiaries/eco-stewards that will keep water bodies clean and protected!

DSWD beneficiaries can also be trained to make paper uling or recycled paper, paper items, and more from paper wastes!

DSWD beneficiaries as eco-stewards, through AGAPE and DEO, by simply managing their kitchen/household wastes, will not only have food/gardens, income/livelihood alternatives from selling compost/seedlings/seeds, waste paper uling/other waste by-products.

The DSWD beneficiaries will be worthy stewards of God’s people and planet!