NGO to plant 270million trees across African schools

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

An organisation based in Abuja, Nigeria, said it has finalised plans to begin the planting of 270 million economic trees in schools across Africa.
According to a statement released by its communications department, the project named GIVTREES2SCHOOLS (GT2S) is intended to bring back the culture of planting and nuturing gardens and orahrds in schools.
The non-profit organisation said nutrition, preservation of the earth, green environments, reducing carbon emissions, as well as value addition to spaces and communities are some of its major reasons for embarking on this project.
The statement pointed out that the project was first tested in the Maitama Model Primary school in the federal Capital Territory, Abuja where it is being nurtured by members of the GT2S Tree Planting Club, made up of one hundred pupils and 3 teachers.
“Givfree Africa is now set to flag off the continent wide project and begin the implementation plan to plant orchards of two hundred and seventy economic trees in each of the 50,000 Nigerian schools in its map.
“The first school to benefit is one of the premier girls school in the north western part of Nigeria, Government Girls College, Dala, Kano state.”
According to Givfree Africa, “replenishing the depleting African forest reserves, preserving the earth, revamping the canopies of trees in Africa while providing nutrition for the thousands of malnourished African children is yet another motivatoin for this project.”