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Foundation Plant's 150 Trees in FCT Schools

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The Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP), on Thursday planted 150 trees at the Science Primary School, Kuje, in FCT, and urged government to provide seedlings to schools to mitigate impact of climate change in the country.

The Executive Director of the foundation, Rev. Sister Agatha Chikwelue, said that the aim of the exercise is to commemorate 2022 International Children’s Day.

Chikwelue said that the essence of planting the trees in the school was to support the government curb the impact of climate change in the FCT.

She said that the theme of the 2022 international children’s day is “Equity and inclusion for Every Child”.

According to her, “we are here Thursday to commemorate the 2022 International Children’s Day,” saying that the UN set the date for the celebration on Nov. 20, 1959.

She said that the foundation decided to mark the day earlier because Nov. 20 is a Sunday and might not be able to gather enough children in schools.

“So, we decided to choose Thursday to be able to gather enough children in the school and rejoice with them.

“Celebrating with the children is to make them understand their importance in the society. I always say that there is no future without children. There is no sustainability without children.

“When we talk about the future of humanity, then we are talking about children. Every year we have this culture of celebrating with children.

“For this year’s celebration, we decided to make it a little bit different by focusing our attention on tree planting because of what is happening today in our environment.

“As we are talking, we all know that the climate change conference COP27 in Egypt was held because of the level of destruction of the environment that has led to climate change,” she said.

The Executive Director warned Nigerians to desist from activities that could damage the environment, adding that these are architects of the menace.

She said the foundation decided to visit the children to educate them on the importance of protecting the environment, and making them environmentally conscious.

“We decided to go towards the sub satellite towns in the FCT, so that we will be able to get more children who are living in the community.

“They will know the importance of tree planting and how to hold their teachers and parents responsible.

“Let them always remind their parents and teachers to always plant trees and whenever they cut one tree they must replace it with five trees.

“This is one of the best ways to checkmate and mitigate the impact of climate change,” she said.

Chikwelue also called on the private sector and other relevant stakeholders to support the project by providing seedlings and offer other possible ways to ensure that climate change and other environmental challenges are tackled effectively.

The Head Teacher of the school, Mrs Asabi Boyi, said that the school authority would ensure that the trees are monitored adequately.

Also speaking at the event, the Head of Department, Primary School Services, Local Education Authority Project, Mr Danladi Sule, said that tree planting helps to curb the impact of climate change in environment.

Source: NAN

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