More than 30 individuals with first name “Ramon” lead the launch of a nationwide project to plant 100,000 trees to mark the 100 birth anniversary of President Ramon Magsaysay on March 17, 2008. Leading the pack are Ramon Rodriguez. Ramon Santos. Ramon Gil Macapagal. Lucito Ramon Bertol. Ramon Dondi. Ramon Borromeo. Ramon Aldea. Ramoncito Campos. Ramon Cardenas. Ramon Diaz. Ramoncito Ramos. Ramon Sales. Ramon Tulfo and so on.

It looks like we’re going to run out of trees because of the high number of signatories,” Mother Earth Philippines convenor Odette Alcantara chuckled at the launch of the project in her home in Blue Ridge subdivision in Quezon City. Since more than 100 Ramons had signed up, Alcantara said she would group them into five clusters, and assign them different tasks. The target sites include Mt. Manunggal in Cebu (where Magsaysay died in a plane crash on March 17, 1957), Mt. Pinatubo (the name of the ill-fated presidential plane) in Zambales, and other areas visited by Magsaysay. “The planet is in bad shape.