Bucharest, November 18
th
, 2010
Around 150 employees of COSMOTE Romania and Germanos are expected to take part as volunteers, on November 20th, in probably one of the main reforestation actions of the year involving the planting of an entire forest nearby Ploiesti. The reforestation is part of the company's corporate responsibility program, named Adopt a Forest, launched in 2009.
Thus, on November 20th, the team of volunteers form COSMOTE and Germanos will plant 10,000 baby oak trees on a surface of 20,000 square metres east of Ploiesti, with the support of MaiMultVerde Association and of the Administration of Public and Private Domain Ploiesti.
Moreover, the company, together with its partners, assumed the care and maintenance of the forest for the following 5 years - the period the trees require until reaching early maturity.
"We believe at COSMOTE that we have our share of responsibility for the future generations. Thus, planting trees and taking care of them, as well as taking other various initiatives to decrease the CO2 footprint of the company is an important part of our CR strategy, for which our colleagues volunteered with enthusiasm. We look forward to seeing this new step of <