Calling for Sponsors

Hello, my name is Sid Chidiac.  I am dedicating my time for the love of the cedar tree and for the support of the environment, with the help of a friend of mine, Salim Khalaf.  He is voluntarily helping me put this website together in an effort to carry out our mission to preserve and protect the cedar trees on the mountains of Lebanon.

There are over 12 million Lebanese people all over the world and 4 million inside Lebanon.  With the help of friends of different nationalities all over the world, I am asking you kindly to support this project.  Donate $100 today, or $100 over time (1 or 2 year options available).   If you are able to support more than one tree we will appreciate it and thank you, but if you want to support only one tree, we still thank you.  The moment the tree becomes about 6 feet tall, your name tag will be hanging off of the tree. 

I'm planning to plant Cedar Trees on the Mountain of Lebanon. Once, 2000 years ago, the mountains were covered with Cedar Trees. Cedar trees were cut down to build the pyramids in Egypt and build King Solomon’s Temple in Israel and the Europeans were also interested in the Cedar Trees. 

Today, there are not many of these cedar trees left on the mountain of Lebanon. The original place of the cedars, The City of the Cedars in Lebanon, has only 350 original cedar trees left. The 350 cedar trees suffered a lot from bad disease because of the environment, lightening, and heavy snow fall.  This is why we want to re-grow seeds from the original trees on the mountains of Lebanon. 

To grow a cedar tree of up to six feet, it takes up to 10 to 15 years.  When they are young, they are very fragile.  Fragile from the animals, the goats who eat on the mountains.  Also, in the winter people jet ski on the mountains and on the trees which make them fragile.  Not only are we planting cedar trees from scratch, but we also want to protect them, have them secured from the humans, animals, and from the weather.   We need to create a system in order to water the cedar trees during the hot summer period from the first day it is planted.  We first need to build a container that will hold the daily water for the trees on the very top of the mountain. A truck will pick up water from the nearby river every day and this water will be pumped through a pipe from the bottom of the mountain to the top into the container. This is more than 800 meters up in the mountain, which is 2,625 feet.  We then need plastic pipes coming from that container all the way down to every tree with little hoses that will separate into smaller hoses that will run in front of each tree, in order to water it daily in the summer time.  This watering system has to go on from the day they are planted in the mountain until the tree reaches about 6 feet tall or taller.   

With the $100 donation, you are helping bringing the soil, the plant, water hose, and everything needed to plant the cedar tree on the mountain.   We need a daily car to bring the supplies up, which means we need gas and petrol.  We need to pay the staff.  To help the tree get to 6 feet, almost 2 meters, it needs a lot of work. 

First of all, we need someone to give us or lend us land.  We also need to get the original seed from the cedar trees.  We need the soil and plastic bags to plant the cedar inside of.  We need a daily watering system for them to grow. We need to grow them in a nursery first a little lower than the original cedar trees on the mountain. 

The higher the altitude, the slower the cedar tree will grow, lower the altitude, the faster the cedar tree will grow, this is why it needs to be in a nursery a little lower.  In the winter, we will have a lot of snow on them in the nursery, so they can adapt to the same temperature as in the winter on the mountain.  When the tree is old enough, about 3 or 4 years old, we can remove it from the nursery and re plant in on the top of the mountain.  Doing this, we need the equipment from a heavy truck that can climb on the mountains.  We need to pay the staff. We need a water tank to be put on the mountain, almost underground.  We need plastic hoses to go from the top of the mountain to the bottom. 

To begin a project like this, i need a lot of support, not only for the love of the cedar, but planting trees on the surface of the earth.  I am kindly asking you to help and to ask other people to help. Please advertise for us. Thank you for your kindness and help.  To read more about the cedars, click on NEXT