THE Green Sahara Farms in partnership with the Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA) and Sterling One Foundation Agroforestry for Climate Action Project (SACAP) has engaged in the planting of 10,000 trees across 24 unity colleges.
This was in a bid to address the impact of climate change, such as flooding and desertification across the country.
The President-General of USOSA, Mr Mike Magaji, at the inauguration of the tree planting at the Federal Government Girls College, Bwari, on Friday, said there was need to inculcate the culture of environmental participation through young children.
Magaji said that doing this would make the children grow up to learn and appreciate the values of keeping the environment safe and clean, thereby protecting the country and environment.
According to him, one of the ways of doing it is tree planting. We are in the first phase; we are going to do 10,000 trees in 24 unity schools across the country.
He said: “This project is to introduce basically environmentally friendly programme and in this case, tree planting to unity schools across Nigeria.
“We are working with Sterling One Foundation and Green Sahara Farms to plant trees to protect these schools and the children while also to guarantee the future of our environment.
“You are aware of the issues of climate change, desertification on the one side in the North and flooding on the other side in the South.”
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Green Sahara Farms, Mr Suleiman Dikwa, said the best way to protect the environment was through the students.
Dikwa charged the Federal Ministry of Education that the project was inculcated into schools’ curriculum to arouse the consciousness of students towards a safer environment.