After finishing school and tagging along with her mother to the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project headquarters at Victoria, East Coast Demerara, 19-year-old Theola Fortune was given an opportunity to become a tour guide.
She began by learning about the various types of mangroves and their functions. And while her journey began at the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) and evolved into participation with the Guyana Mangrove Producers Cooperative (GMPC), Fortune soon found that volunteering was where she needed to be.
Last Monday, Fortune commenced the planting of 6,000 seedlings. She said she had nursed the seedlings until they had reached the desired height—30 centimetres—and planted 60 seedlings along the Victoria area where some of the
