Recover Guyana celebrates Earth Day with yoga and tree-planting exercises

In honour of this year’s Earth Day celebrations, the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Recover Guyana hosted an event titled “Connect to Earth” today.
The event, which was held at the Indian Monument Garden in Georgetown, featured a number of fun and engaging activities.
Attendees were able to benefit from free seedling distribution and take part in activities such as tree planting exercises, face painting, interactive booths, yoga, Sip & Paint, “Konnect in Nature,” trampoline, and a bouncy castle, as well as having the opportunity to win lots of prizes.

Strategic Development Director at Recover Guyana, Vishal Roopnarine, told Ignite News that the event is aimed at reconnecting people with nature and appreciating the significant role the Earth plays in the lives of everyone.
“We’re Recover Guyana, one of Guyana’s premier environmental NGOs. Today, we’re partnering with Scotiabank Guyana, Policy Forum Guyana, the Rotary Club of the University of Guyana, and the Indian High Commission to Guyana for our Earth Day activity called ‘Connect to Earth.’ We’re having a day of fun— even in the rain—really commemorating what the Earth means to us. We’ll be doing some free seedling distribution, we’ll have a tree-planting exercise here at the Monument Gardens… the Indian High Commission will be hosting a yoga session titled, ‘Yoga for One Earth, One Health.’ We have loads of prizes for the kids, and so on. We’re going to really highlight what the Earth means to us and honour it today for Earth Day,” he noted.
Roopnarine added that this is just one of the activities in which Recover Guyana is involved, aimed at teaching people how to protect the Earth.

“Recover Guyana has a number of projects that are environmentally conscious. Our premier project, SHOUT, is currently ongoing. It’s the quest for Guyana’s youth environmental speaker. Some of our other notable projects are Project Engage, where we train youths in green entrepreneurship, and we also have another initiative, the Water Purification and Sustainability initiative in secondary schools, where we’re setting up purification systems in secondary schools across Guyana. There’s a lot going on at Recover, so be sure to follow us on our social media pages and check out all that we’re doing to help the Earth,” he said.
This was the first event of its kind for Recover Guyana in celebration of Earth Day, and according to Roopnarine, it is anticipated to become an annual observance.

Yoga was part of the observance

One of activities at the event