Du Staff Members Volunteer With The Give a Ghaf Project To Raise Awareness About Plant Preservation And Water Scarcity In The UAE

In line with du’s sustainability efforts and its vision to help build a cleaner and greener UAE, staff members volunteered with the Give a Ghaf Project on February 7^th, 2018. The Give a Ghaf Project – run by community organization Goumbook– aims to raise awareness of the UAE’s national tree, the Ghaf, which has experienced a steady decline in recent years due to grazing, intensive lopping, and excessive groundwater extraction.

du’s staff members have been volunteering with the Give a Ghaf Project since 2014, contributing hundreds of volunteer hours to assist Goumbook in their efforts to plant, grow, and maintain the desert-native Ghaf tree. Between 2015 and 2016, du volunteers contributed to the planting of more than 1,800 seedlings – one seed per employee – which have since been growing at Goumbook’s nursery and will eventually be replanted in schoolyards, residential communities, and open landscapes. This year, du employees assisted with re-planting, re-seeding, and re-tagging potted Ghafs at Goumbook’s nursery, as well as loading plants into trucks to be re-planted in various destinations.