Fighting Climate Change and Honouring Heroes
November this year. Inspired by the groundswell of support received through HoHTC, and through the experience of building partnerships to achieve great outcomes, the group is committed to continuing to create living legacies to honour and thank the people who put their lives at risk to keep our communities safe, and loved ones and neighbours that inspire us every day, by planting trees. They are raising awareness for this program and those like it with municipalities, conservation organizations and parks and recreation, departments, and facilities to inspire connection that will lead to these groups growing their green spaces and creating better communities across the province. Trees for Heroes’ first project was planting a commemorative grove at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Bayview location), in Toronto this fall. The grove honours frontline health workers who have bravely led us through the pandemic and who work tirelessly for our health and well-being. There was a special ceremony featuring the
To celebrate National Forest Week 2022, over 1,800 new trees were planted to honour health workers and benefit Ontarians by organizations taking part in the Trees for Health Ontario* initiative. Trees for Health Ontario is a coalition of people and organizations that are collaborating with health facilities, municipalities, and conservation authorities to plant trees in honour of the hundreds of thousands of health workers across the province. Research shows that access to green spaces benefits our mental and physical health. Health workers keep their communities healthy, and the Trees for Health Ontario initiative strives to return the favour, by increasing green spaces at health facilities, to improve the patient and health worker experience through all the benefits trees provide. Trees for Heroes is a new campaign of the national charity Trees for Life , the organization spearheading the Trees for Health Ontario initiative. The charity evolved out of the Highway of Heroes Tree Campaign (HoHTC), which was completed in
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