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The first Christmas´ tree of Dona Leonor
An initiative that began with the aim to finance the trip of end of career of a few university students, today, more than forty years later, has become institutionalized as a solidary and environmental message that repeats itself every Christmas.
The particular campaign began on Friday with several students of sixth of the Engineers' School of Mounts of Madrid disguised as firs and they walking along the center of the city. Of such a way, and until December 8, these standard-bearers of the ecology and the environment distribute leaflets and they will explain to the population why and how to protect the biodiversity in order that this one, in turn, could take care of us.
Natural fir
One more year they will remember neighbors and paseantes the advantages of adorning a tree of natural Christmas and not of plastic. Of step, they advertise their traditional sale of firs in the School, a few trees that, to avoid the uncontrolled felling, sell with roots and handles to be replanted again on having concluded the holidays. They come from a production controlled of a fish-pond placed in Zegama, municipality bordering on Alava, and sell from 13 Euros in the own School. Besides, the pupils offer to transport the tree without any cost inside the municipal term.
By every sold tree an Euro is destined to solidary projects of Red Spanish Cross in the Carib. And it is that Cuba is the destiny of their trip of end of career, though also during the periplus they will realize a solidary action on having reserved between 2 and 3 kilos of the capacity of the suitcases to take elements of the first need to the island, in collaboration with the ONG PFC.
This year, on the occasion of the birth of the daughter of the Princes of Asturias, the pupils will give her first tree of Christmas to Dona Leonor. With this present they aspire to wake the interest up in the youngest generations for the Nature. An interest like that every Christmas leads them to adorning the Stadium Vicente Calderón and the Prado Museum with one of their firs.