As schools reopen, the Elgeyo Marakwet TSC County Director Loice Murei has called on all teachers in the county to take advantage of the rains and make the week a tree-planting week.
Noting that tree planting is part of their performance contract, the director called on teachers to teach the young ones the importance of planting trees and taking care of the environment.
Speaking at Singore Girls High School when she led staff in planting 200 trees, the director said they will also plant a further 200 in Sergoit Secondary School.
She added that as part of their contribution to the planting of the 15 billion trees, her office will provide 900 seedlings to their staff so that they can extend the exercise to their homes, with each staff expected to plant 30 trees.
“We also have 50 fruit tree seedlings which we will give our staff to plant which they can use to get extra income even as they conserve the environment as we all know that wealth is in the environment,” she said.
Murei said there were only a few schools whose toilets sunk because of the heavy rains, but they would work with other organizations to have them rebuilt.
The principal Linet Khabongo said the school welcomes all who would want to partner with it to plant trees, saying last year they planted 2,500 trees and there is still space for more.
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