Rotary club of Lilongwe plants over 3,500 trees

Members from Rotary Club of Lilongwe on Tuesday afternoon took time off their busy schedules to take part in a tree planting exercise along the new tarmac road connecting Mchinji and Paul Kagame roads’ roundabouts.

Contributing to a noble cause- The Rotarians at work.
Contributing to a noble cause- The Rotarians at work.
A Rotarian plants a tree
A Rotarian plants a tree

The exercise, according to president of the club Sophie Kalinde is part of an environmental project the organization has been running for the last couple of years.

“Protection of the environment is one of our focus areas and every year we plant trees in Lilongwe city. Last year we planted over 3,500 trees which we bought using funds donated by Press Trust and TNM and this year we got another donation from Press Trust, which we have used to source the same number of tree seedlings.

“We expect that by March this year, we will have planted about 5,000 trees as we are still sourcing funds for the project,” said Kalinde, who was being flanked by deputy chairman of the project committee Alfred Mwambira.

The club president, however, bemoaned the practice by some city residents to remove the tree seedlings.

She urged Lilongwe City Council, through its Parks, Recreation and Environment department to ensure the planted trees are protected from irresponsible citizens.

Director of Parks, Recreation and Environment at Lilongwe City Council Allan Kwanjana, whose department has partnered with the Rotary club in the project expressed hope that the trees will be protected this time round.

“We really have a problem that whenever these trees are planted, they don’t survive because of some unscrupulous residents but this time we are optimistic that the trees will survive. With the presence of Councillors we believe there will now be a sense of ownership amongst community members because these Councillors will be engaging with community members and block leaders on the importance of conserving the trees.

“People also have to learn from the problems of floods the country is experiencing. Even cities like Blantyre have not being spared and the main contributing factor to these problems is the cutting down of
trees,” said Kwanjana.

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mwana
9 years ago

that is good news

Ngalamayi
Ngalamayi
9 years ago

Much of Malawi, particularly around our cities, has suffered so badly from deforestation. It’s good to see some of our citizens giving their time, energy, money to remedy this problem. Every tree counts – congratulations, Lilongwe Rotary!

fkr
fkr
9 years ago

That’s fantastic

Kennedy
9 years ago

Why not employing some of the thousands jobless youths to take care of these trees. You see the country is losing thousands and thousands of trees everyday due to charcoal burning and curing tobacco in tobacco estates therefore, we need to jealously guard these planted trees. The community, youths, country can all benefit if we can employ young pple to take care of planted trees while getting afew kwachas @ the end of month

Zondiwe
Zondiwe
9 years ago

Well done Rotary Club of Lilongwe.
Keep the Rotary Fire burning.
Congratulations President Sophie Kalinde
and all Rotarians. Keep doing the good deeds.

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