Footprint Vietnam Travel supported the "Green Sapa day"

The Green Sapa day was taken on August 19th, 2010. Footprint Vietnam travel was
very pleased to support this event of tree planting in Ban Ho village, Sapa - La
o Cai. This was a working together with other Vietnam tour operators in Hanoi (R
TC), SNV, IPADE, Sapa tourism, Ban Ho schools, Sapa tour operators, sapa hotels.
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Overview:
Tourism has been a good source of income for the people of Sapa district, of Lao
Cai province but tourism here has been also bringing some negative impacts to t
he environment of the areas, Ban Ho village is one of the many examples in Sapa
which has the very negative impacts by the hydro-power plant.
Before the power project planned here, Ban Ho village was a good destination for
tourists to come and stay overnight but it has been a sharp decrease because of
the power plant destroyed.
Therefore, the Green Up Sapa Day will be the one of event reminding people to pa
y attention to think about environment in Sapa particular and Vietnam in general
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The objectives of the Green Sapa day:
* To mobilize people realize the importance of environment and make them to
understand more about environment reservation
* To create this event as an annual Green Sapa Day
* To educate the next generation to protect environment
* To remind organization in Sapa join in environment protecting.

Venue of the event: Ban Ho village, Sapa.

Participant: org : SNV, IPADE, RTC, SAPA authority, Lao Cai Docst, Lao Cai natur
e and environment, Hoang Lien National Park, Sapa environment organization, Son
g Da, Nam Toong and Su Pan hydro electric joint stock company, Pupil of some sch
ool in Sapa, Sapa Hotel and restaurant association, Lao Cai/Sapa Tour companies,
Lao Cai/Sapa youth union.
Source: (www.footprintsvietnam.com)