This year I coordinated a nationwide tree planting competition in the Gambian school system. It is a great initiative that was started by a Peace Corps volunteer a few years ago. The competition is an incentive to teach school kids environmental education, and plant trees. The trees serve to beautiful the school, grow orchards, and woodlots. The fruit and timber from the grown trees will be used as food for the kids and income generation for the school. See below post on the Tree Nursery - Award Ceremony project.
Over 80 schools participated in this year’s competition growing over 20,000 seedlings. Unfortunately, the promised funding never came through. We now cannot finish this year’s competition. The kids and teachers have worked so hard on the competition we do not want to drop them halfway through. Therefore we wrote a Peace Corps Partnership grant to finish out the year and reward the winning schools with prizes. In the grant, the community must raise 25% of the funds and we raise the rest.
If you can help, please donate at the Peace Corps site below. Any amount would be appreciated.
https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.donors.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=635-063
or http://www.peacecorps.gov (click donations) – project number: 635-063
If you would like to donate, please do it as soon as you can because the competition is suppose to finish before the end of the year. Thank you.
Final thought - The competition encourages schools to emphasize environmental education and plant trees to reforest The Gambia. The forestry knowledge and skills gained by the students will remain with them for a lifetime building a more environmentally conscious society.
Students in their nursery site.
An education official judging the tree nursery on first trek.
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