Over 50 kids and 40 adults flocked to Marbella conservation park Arboretum on Wednesday 4th April on the hunt for chocolate eggs. As well as having fun, this Easter Egg Hunt taught the kids about the different native species of trees and showed them the importance...
Continue ReadingCharity Arboretum Marbella will be holding an Easter Egg Hunt at their beautiful public park on Wednesday 4th April. From 3pm families are invited to Arboretum and will be given a tour around this stunning green space filled with plants, trees and vegetables native to the...
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Specsavers Opticas in Fuengirola is marking the start of a year-long collaboration with Cudeca Cancer Hospice with a fun event in store on Monday 5th March.
Local hairdressers and beauticians from Beso Salon will be on hand to pamper and beautify the guests totally free of charge. There will be frames style advisors to help match glasses to the guests’ new look. There will also be a “Bring and Buy” clothing sale so guests can get a completely new look. All funds raised will go to Cudeca.
Laura Haggis Sotas from Cudeca will be there from 4pm to give more information about the charity and show their support for the event along with Cudeca carer, Gill Steele, who will be coming down for a makeover, some pampering and a free pair of glasses.
Visitors are asked to bring along unwanted clothes in good condition to form part of the bring and buy sale. There will be a clothes rail with gorgeous items which can be bought for a small donation to Cudeca. Any items not sold on the day will go to the Cudeca charity shop.
The Director of Arboretum Alejandro César Orioli and Victor E. Ranea, Manager of Aloha College have signed a partnership agreement in order to combine resources to achieve their common objectives of inspiring respect and care for the environment in the next generation.
The end of the International Year of the Forest was marked at Arboretum in Marbella on 29th December 2011 with a tree planting by the area’s oldest woman, Antonia Aranda Fernandez. 98 year old Antonia planted her favourite tree, the almond, surrounded by friends and family and recounted stories from her long and varied life.
Antonia is the mother of 5 children, grandmother to 11 grandchildren and great grandmother to 15 great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter. Born on 3rd February 1913, the third of 14 children in a farming family, Antonia has had a hard but rewarding life living in close contact with the land and in her own words “fighting like a lioness” to provide for her family. From the age of 12 she worked in the fields and then from 14 carried sacks of flour in return for bread and oil, becoming a cleaner in later life.
Her memories of Marbella are of a very different place than we see today, with the whole area covered in trees and full of bird song. She’s sad to see how few trees are now left and how little contact younger generations are having with the countryside. “My great-grandchildren don’t have a relationship with the earth and that’s not good. Having a connection with nature is important, you have to understand it and know what it can give us. To us as children trees were everything, our playground and our larder. The disrespect that the younger generations show for nature is harmful for everyone and for the future.”
ARBORETUM MARBELLA is continuing its Education for Sustainability programme on 2nd, 3rd and 4th December. This workshop titled The Ecological and Biodynamic Garden will be the second module in a series of ten workshops which began in October and will be held every two months until June 2013. Each course includes both theory and practice in the field.
This Saturday, environmental charity Arboretum are looking for 100 people to come to Finca El Trapiche, 29602 Marbella from 10am until 1pm. This is part of their project to create a people's forest behind the bus station in Marbella on deserted scrub land. This is a fantastic way...
Continue ReadingSaeko Hamada has informed us about a gala event being held in the Puente Romano on Saturday night to raise money to set up libraries in Africa. It is a gala dinner with entertainment and sounds like a lot of fun whilst raising money for...
Continue ReadingWe've just been told about an amazing challenge which Russell Soden is undertaking to raise much needed funds for the Foundation of for the Study of Infant Deaths which does important research into the causes of cot death. He's climbing La Concha (bigger than Ben...
Continue ReadingFundación Cesare Scariolo have teamed up with professional photographer Eduardo Soria on the project Opturator. This will allow people to get a great portrait at a reduced price which will be featured in an exhibition, book. It will also raise funds for this very deserving charity which helps...
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