Tawason and Talamban; Mandaue City Government; DepEd with the 4 th year students of the high school campuses located within these barangays; University of Cebu Mandaue-Lapu-Lapu Campus; the Companies & Businesses like Socor Construction Corp., Maritrans Recycler, Inc., Metro Colon, Vicsal Foundation, Green Coil Industries, Petron Corporation, Profood International, National Grid Corp., Treasure Island Industrial Corp., Dedon Manufacturing, Inc., San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp., Ginebra San Miguel, Inc., Cenapro Chemical Corp., D’RBG Marine Ex-Import, Monde Nissin Corp., Cebu Premier Industrial Gases Corp., Nutri-Asia, Inc., APY Cane, Inc., Sunpride Foods, Inc., IPI, Faithope Industries, Inc. and North General Hospital; the trimedia particularly ABS-CBN, the Philippine National Police, Junior Jaycees Society, Oikos <strong>Environmental</strong> Society, other Volunteer NGOs and the DENR with representatives from its sectors and line-bureaus. A Peek to the Program’s Sustainability More partners have declared their commitment to the program after a series of dialogue and close coordination with them. Since the program was launched, some 13 companies al<strong>read</strong>y have signed the Memorandum of Agreement as Donor Partners, namely: ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp., Dedon Manufacturing Inc., Concrete Solutions Inc., Profood International Corp., RRDS Petro- Chemical Industries, Inc., Lami Food Products, JLR Construction and Aggregates, Inc., Maritrans Recycler, Inc., Treasure Island Industrial Corp., Cenapro Chemical Corporation, Greencoil Industries, Inc., Sunpride Foods, Inc. and Cebu Holdings, Inc. While 3 <strong>more</strong> interested stakeholders are planning to join in the next MOA signing schedule. There were many other clean up and mangrove planting events that were conducted by other partner companies and LGUs within their respective areas of jurisdiction and chosen sites in the region. All these initiatives have even <strong>more</strong> crowned the Clean up Month Celebration with glory and have made the Adopt-a- River/Estero program to take root. By: Rechale Ybañez, EMB 7