Environmental journalists have just made their contribution by participating in the planting of seedlings along the Gatuna-Kigali road. The plants will be used to protect and beautify this international road.
Journalists in training in Gicumbi district (North West) on climate change, participated on 20 January 2022 in the planting of seedlings with the population of the village, district authorities and staff of Green Gicumbi project.
During this action, some took photos to immortalize this initiative, others interviews.
Four species of trees were adopted in this work for nature, including the Royal Palm for decoration and the Bamboo to protect the land around the rivers.
Assiati Mukobwajana did not wait for his arrival in the studios of Radio and Television Isango Star to ask the local population to protect the achievements. “We hope one day, when we return, to find the trees planted on this land and to rejoice in the action taken,” she said to the people of Nyamabare village, Muhambo cell, Cyumba sector.
The Gicumbi district authority is keen to change the image of the territorial entity in its jurisdiction. “From the border of Gatuna (Rwandan-Ugandan), one will know that one is arriving in green Rwanda,” says the Vice-Mayor in charge of economic development, Parfaite Uwera.
Gicumbi District in the Northern Province is now experiencing the effects of climate change. Once known for its bitter cold, this high-altitude region no longer makes people shiver during the day, due to global warming.
The Green Gicumbi (GG) project is working hard to restore the situation. “We want Gicumbi to get wet. A country that gets wet is full of life,” sums up the objective of this project, GG manager Jean Marie Vianney Kagenza.
With this symbolic gesture, 500 seedlings were put in the ground. This is a long-term project. The GG project is two years old. The double remains to total six years in the transformation of Gicumbi into a green space. The initiatives revolve around three axes: adaptation, resilience and mitigation of the effects of climate change.
They will be accompanied by environmental journalists. More than 60 have just been trained on concepts, global and national engagement, achievements and reporting on climate change. Field visits have been organized to combine theory with practice. Now it is around the fingers to press the keyboards of the computers in several newsrooms, to contribute to Green Gicumbi.
Gérard Rugambwa
Well reported Dear Gerard. But I think it would to brief what we visited on the ground: I mean the radical terraces in wheat are cultivated, the climate resilient settlements, sustainable forestry management and energy (biogaz).
It’s the first story, not the last.