Despite the gloomy sky, the NSTP CWTS - Environmental Cluster had a bright day ahead as they embarked on a mission to plant 700 mangrove propagules in Bayug River Delta, Barangay Hinaplanon, Iligan City. This project, aptly named "Kababaihan, Kinaiyahan ug Komunidad: Mangrove Growing and Coastal Clean-up" and headed by Mr. Jaypee S. Yongco, aims to promote volunteerism and build climate-resilient coastal communities, in line with the month-long celebration of International Women's Month.

The MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology through its Gender and Development Center is one with the world in celebrating March as Women’s Month. 

It has since served as a venue to highlight women’s achievements and discuss continuing and emerging women’s empowerment and gender equality issues and concerns, challenges, and commitments. The celebration focuses on concrete activities that are aligned with national and international instruments and treaties such as the 1980 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (2023-2028), the Framework Plan for Women, and the Sustainable Development Goals.