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Her Excellency First Lady Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow launched the UNESCO – ICESCO Support to Community Reforestation Program in The Gambia.
The Project aims to produce 10,000 Seedlings and mangrove propagules in WCR, LRR, and CRR.
In launching the project, Her Excellency called on everyone planting the trees to name the trees after their loved ones, especially children, saying “so that we will take care of the trees like our own children”.
Her Excellency planted five trees and named them after the first family’s children.
These trees have numerous benefits as they are edible, provide shade, and most importantly, produce oxygen for mankind.
She expressed her gratitude to UNESCO and ICESCO for this commendable project, which involves the planting of highly efficient and adapted woody forest species in nurseries and reforesting 20 hectares of degraded community lands.
