Walfinch home care Celebrates its Carers with 10,000 Trees

National home care provider Walfinch has gone green by pledging to plant 10,000 new trees over five years – one for each carer it employs.

Walfinch Chief Executive Amrit Dhaliwal, announcing the Walfinch Goes Green initiative on the Walfinchwebsite, says:

Rene Sonnekus, recently recruited as a carer by Tracy Lezar and Kathleen Plough, franchisee Managing Directors of Walfinch home care in Weybridge, Surrey, says:

Walfinch partnered with online global tree planting scheme Treeapp for the initiative, with sustainability in mind. It only plants endemic and non-invasive native species, forbids monocultures (as they achieve no biodiversity) and ensures the land is owned by local communities in perpetuity.

Sustainability

The scheme supports projects around the world from Wales to The Americas, Africa and Asia, and Treeapp supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Rene Sonnekus says:

Treeapp calculates that planting 10,000 trees over five years will absorb around 217 tonnes of CO2 annually (across the lifetime of the trees), while creating 19 work days for local communities and re-foresting over 3,187 square metres of land each year.

The number of trees planted will be visible on the Walfinch website so new care team members will be able to see the effect when they are taken on.

Tracy Lezar of Walfinch Weybridge says:

For information about Walfinch home care services across the country, visit their profile.