Friday, November 20th at 8:15 a.m. three residents of Building JJ (Ruby, Yin Min and Blair) made their way out to Massachusetts Ave and joined 60 other volunteers to plant trees at the embassies! Yin Min found out about this lovely event through Casey Trees, who partners with Restore Mass Ave for tree planting projects in the city.
We began the morning with coffee and donuts at the Cote d'Ivoire Embassy, who hosted us for the day. While we ate, the Founder and President of Restore Mass Ave, Deborah Shapley (right) and the Director of Tree Planting at Casey Trees, Jim Woodworth (left) gave us a little background on the project and riled up our excitement!
Director Woodworth welcoming us
After their presentation, representatives of Casey Trees gave us a little tutorial on tool safety. Then they handed off a shovel to Ambassador Koffi Y. Charles of Cote d'Ivoire (below), who was given the honor of making the first dig for the tree we were planting on his embassy's territory.
Check out the Ivoirien guards above! Their uniforms were so cool!
Next we made our way to our respective tree planting sites. We were part of group six, and got to plant one tree at the Venezuelan Embassy and one at the Slovenian Embassy. Pictures from both of those are shown below.
Here's our awesome Casey Trees Rep, showing off our finished tree! He was so great!
The sixty volunteers present planted sixteen trees altogether. We finished the morning around 11:30, at which point we were all invited into the Cote d'Ivoire Embassy for lunch and a short presentation of gratitude from Restore Mass Ave and Casey Trees to the Ambassador of Cote d'Ivoire. Above, a student volunteer from City Collegiate Public Charter School and President Shapley present the Ambassador with a token of thanks from Restore Mass Ave. What a wonderful morning! You will definitely see Building JJ with Casey Trees again in the future!
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