Rotary Club Kajansi, Uganda prisons to plant trees

Sep 25, 2017

Rotary Club Kajansi president, Apollo Kankunda, asked the community to care for the trees because they are beneficial to them too.

Rotary club members with prison warders and prisoners while launching the tree-planting campaign at Kasanje, Wakiso

Rotary Club Kajansi in partnership with Uganda Prisons have planted two acres of fruit, timber and wood trees to restore the environment through the Rotary Mission Green world campaign.

During the launch at Kasanje on Saturday, Rotary club president Apollo Kankunda, said their five year campaign will cover 80 acres at Kasanje Prisons' land in Wakiso district. The director of prisons in Wakiso, Rebecca Gabu said the prison services countrywide use 227 tonnes of wood every day to prepare meals in the 252 prisons. 

"We are pleased to partner with rotarians to restore and avail the community with the much needed trees for wood, food/fruits, medicine among others," she said.

Rotary district 9211 Governor that takes Uganda and Tanzania, Kenneth Wycliffe Mugisha, said they decided to plant trees because the world's environment has been destroyed.

"The environment has been destroyed. Everyone must intervene, Mugisha said.

Rotary Club Kajansi president, Apollo Kankunda, asked the community to care for thes trees because they are beneficial to them too.

"All communities in the neighbouring villages should mobilise people to join hands and protect the environment before the environment is too weak to protect us," observed Hassan Mayanja, the co-ordinator Mission Green with Kajansi Rotary Club.

 

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