As part of its green environment project, the Nigerian Centre for Climate Renewal, Resilience and Adaptation (NICRA) has disclosed that plans are underway to plant trees in the 831 public schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
This was disclosed by the Executive Director of NICRA, Abdullahi Geidam on Thursday in Abuja at the pilot scheme of its School Tree planting Programme.
With at least 50 trees planted, the project was officially launched at the Model Primary School in Asokoro.
According to Geidam, planting trees at every public school in the FCT may seem impossible, but could be achieved with the right partnerships.
In his words, “Our hope is to see how we can expand the tree planting programme to all schools in Nigeria but our focus for now remains public schools and there are 831 public schools in Abuja and that is massive.
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“We can’t do it alone but we are determined to get it, we are going to partner with Carriters in the Catholic Church, we understand they have a programme for planting trees in churches.
“We will partner with the private sectors and hold our local companies responsible through their Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) commitment to the environment of host communities.
“We are going to be talking to companies like BUA, Dangote and Cadbury and all local companies who are making money from the environments, from their local communities, and using their resources to make money.
“They must be part of the programme, they must plant a tree because planting a tree saves the earth, so we must plant trees together and we are doing this through the schools.”
Story was adapted from Enviro News
