GIC Steering Committee Field Trip To Assess Project

The schools environmental club has 30 members who are “developing a culture of tree planting within the community as a source of alternative fuel and income generation for the benefit of the current and future generations”, he said.

William Muisyo waters his banana seedlings, Katuuni Secondary School, Kitui

Apart from the well developed woodlots, William Muisyo, the environmental club chairman at Katuuni Mixed Day Secondary School, Kitui, showed the Technical Committee his dedication to the project by displaying a separate banana tree plot he set up to supplement the schools’ dietary needs at the team’s next stop. The Form Four student discovered his passion for tree planting at age five and hopes to become a farmer when he completes his education.

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The team was well entertained with several poems and songs from the members of the environmental club at Tulimyumbu Primary School, Machakos. The green teacher Mr. Jackson Muvevi reported that all students and staff are committed to the project. Indeed, the school’s well-developed woodlots were intercropped with pawpaw and passion fruit trees. The school had also bought 400 more seedlings to add to the 300 initial seedling supplied by Better Globe Forestry