By Asa Maina
A conservation group in Nyeri targets to use school children and food processing plants to plant one million trees this year.
Speaking during the launch of ‘Pamoja’ Let Us Green Kenya’ programme at Nyeri Primary School in Nyeri Town, Nyeri County recently, the project consultant Grace Wangari said the organisation will use schools as its point of contact to green learning institutions.
The project is under Peniel Edensafe Africa Limited.
It will be implemented in phases beginning in Nyeri Constituency before rolling out in the county and finally countrywide.
The programme, she added, will not be an event but a process where the pupils will plant and nurture the trees.
“We want to inculcate the green culture within students as they continue with their education. If we do this early enough, we are not going to have problems of conservation of the environment,” she observed.
Peniel will also bring on board other organisations.
Other interventions by the organisations will include supporting green energy to assist people shift from over reliance on wood fuel.
Schools are among institutions that use a lot of wood fuel for cooking.
Tea processing organisations like KTDA also spend a lot of wood she noted and called on them to come on board.
The county chief officer for Education Science and Technology, Joseph Kanyi, who was the Chief Guest, said deforestation which is rampant in the country is to blame for global warming.
