- Alfred Fornah / Alhassan Sesay
PLANTING TREES TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
We're making return visits today to some of the schools in our innovatve tree planting programme with partners, the School Green Club. The team start at Freetown Practising School, handing out facemasks to pupils and teachers to reduce the risks of Covid-19 transmission during the open-air event planting more fruit tree saplings.
It's fantastic to see how well the pupils are taking care of the saplings planted last year under the programme and set to boost children's nutrition and benefit the school by developing market linkages for excess produce.
Next on the schedule, Edest Academy for more tree planting and we were again really impressed with how well the children care for their cashew saplings planted last year each actively participate in the innovative programme.
Last stop a visit to Portee Vocational Institute, handing out more masks before planting some fruit saplings.
The Portee school girls - like all the girls in participating educational facilities - play a leading role in planting and caring for their saplings. The innovative schools programme developed and launched last year in partnership with Sierra Leone School Green Club, Society for Climate Change Communications and 14 education facilities in the Western rural and urban districts. Funded by the UK's Sierra Leone Poverty Alleviation Charitable Trust the projet aims t help tackle climate change and nurture the next generation of sustainability champions.
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