A non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Tamale, Action for Community Development (AFCODEV), at the weekend engaged pupils of the Dapkema Primary and Junior High School in a tree planting exercise in and around the school’s compound.
The exercise was part of activities marking the Global Youth Service Day, which took place a couple of weeks ago.
According to the Director of AFCODEV, Mr Yussif Abdul Mumin, apart from engaging the children in healthy and beneficial activities, the exercise was also meant to nurture the habit of planting trees and preserving the environment in the children.
“For us to have good vegetation and forests, we must teach our children the benefits of planting trees, as well as the protection and conservation of the environment,” he stated.
Mr Mumin also explained that AFCODEV was very concerned about the degradation of the environment and, therefore, considered tree planting as a means of contributing to the preservation and protection of the environment.
A teacher of the Dakpema Primary School, Madam Yakubu Zuleha, expressed the school’s gratitude and gave the assurance that the school would take good care of the trees.
She said trees were very important since they provided shade and also served as windbreaks, and must, therefore be preserved.
Madam Zuleha entreated other organisations to emulate the gesture, since that would gradually ensure that every school in the metropolis would make its contribution to the environment.
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