The children who
presented the event during the inauguration of the installation.
Our young
Earth Heroes at Valletta Skolasajf worked as a collective to create a beautiful
tree design that was‘planted’ within the school walls, as a reminder that
trees are important for our earth. Trees are the lungs of our planet, cleaning
up the air we exhale and expelling clean air!
Through the invaluable support of the Valletta Local
Council, the Skolasajf Valletta team managed to create an outstanding piece of
art that will remain at the Valletta Primary school as a reminder of the FES
summer service, and also of the universal responsibility of every person
towards the environment.
The installation was inaugurated in the presence of a
number of representatives from the Valletta Local Council, from FES, and from
the Valletta Primary School. They attended a short celebration where the
children took all present on a short trip down memory lane, as they narrated
the timeline of their work to create the tree.
L to R: Ms
Pamela Schembri (FES Chairperson), Mr Keith Scicluna (Centre Coordinator), Ms
Marlene Spiteri (Asst Head), Mr Marco Vella ( Asst Head), Ms Ritianne Borg
Saliba (College Principal), Ms Vuctoria Spiteri (Head of School), Mr Michael
Bondin (CEO FES), Mr Mark Spiteri Lucas (Valletta Councillor), Mr Justin
Balzan (Programme Coordinator FES),and Ms Charlene Bonello (PER).
Our group
of youngsters, under the guidance of the Playworkers, Child Support Workers,
and the Centre Coordinator, created a life-size tree made of wood, steel wire,
recycled noodles, and papier-mâché.
The wood
and steel wire cutting were all done by the Centre Coordinator Mr. Keith
Scicluna, as it involved heavy machinery that was not safe for children to be
around. In the meantime, children brought old newspaper and magazine and
started creating a papier-mâché tree skeleton. Layer over layer,
and with patience and perseverance, the tree started coming to life as the team
created the tree trunk, and branches.

The
creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn – Ralph Waldo Emerson