Gee Foundation on Social Justice and Development, an NGO, has donated 500 stands of economic trees to Gasaki Jeje community in Karshi, FCT, during a one-day sensitisation visit.
Mrs Gloria Agema, Executive-Director Gee Foundation, spoke with newsmen on Friday in Abuja.
She said that the foundation was working towards addressing land degradation in order to enhance climate resilience for improved women’s livelihood.
Agema said it was pathetic that only one borehole served four communities and promised that the NGO and its partners would intervene by providing the community with more boreholes to follow up with the trees planted.
The executive director said the community had been badly affected by erosion and has suffered landslides in recent past.
‘So, we felt it was wise to carry out land management practices by supporting the community with planting of trees.”
Agema explained that the project was funded by the French Embassy in Nigeria to plant 500 economic trees to address erosion and land degradatio
n in the community.
She added that her foundation was also in partnership with the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation.
‘We gave no fewer than 100 women that were targeted; two economic trees each, while the remaining trees were shared with the other members of the community.”
Agema expressed worries over the felling of trees in the community but expressed optimism that the chief of the community, Zaki Tanko, had assured them that such practice would be reduced.
She said that the trees would be monitored to ascertain that the women achieved the desired aim of planting the trees.
The economic trees were namely oranges, mangoes and palm trees.
Source: Voice of Nigeria