Development Aid from People to People (Dapp) ha splanted 30, 000 trees in 75 primary schools in the country. Dapp primary school programme coordinator Jimmy Kayange said the programme was designed to counter the effects of climate change.
“Apart from our core objective fo training teachers, we are also equipping them to have a beyond-classroom association with the leaners as well as engage sorrounding communities on crucial aspects that are affecting that are affecting the country such as climate change,” he said.
Kayange said in its quest to sustain trees, teachers assign a single tree to a learner to take care of it. The group, which started in 2012 with 18 teachers as volunteers, has now 100 primary school from 18 districts.
“Our goal is to make sure that we reach the 400 primary schools by the end of this year while we scale up the programme in other districts. “Currently, we are offering the training workshops in Blantyre,” said Kayange.
Dapp has since 2003 trained more than 2, 700 teachers with many of them working in government primary schools.
The 2019/2o Tree Planting Season, was launched by President Peter Munthalika on December 18, 2019 at Nkando in Mulanje. About 62 million trees are expected to be planted nationwide, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mines.
Source: The Nation_January 10, 2020-Elizabeth Mandala-Malawi News Agency