Mwanza residents in tree-planting campaign to protect habitats
What you need to know:
World Habitat Day is marked on the first Monday of October every year.
The day helps people to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right to adequate shelter.
Over 200 trees were planted as part of initiatives by a non-governmental organization, Tahea, as it seeks to establish a human settlement development.
Mwanza. As countries marked World Habitat Day on Monday October 1, residents of Ilemela District, Mwanza Region joined environment stakeholders in a tree planting campaign.
Over 200 trees were planted as a non-governmental organization, Tahea, encouraged the residents to conserve the environment for their benefits and the future generations.
World Habitat Day is marked on the first Monday of October every year to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right to adequate shelter. National celebrations for this year were held in Dodoma.
Tahea employees, through a human settlement project on women and youth ((PAHWaYP), joined residents in the tree-planting campaign.
In the district’s Nyamwilolelwa Street, the chairman of the human settlement development project, Musa Masongo, urged local leaders to ensure that they plant drought-endures trees which do not absorb a lot of water.
“Tree planting should go along with environmental conservation by avoiding arbitrary waste disposal,” said Masongo who heads the PAHWaYP project which is facilitated by a Swedish organization, WE-Effect.
The Nyamwilolela street chairman, Lawlian Bunwenge, said he would ensure that he would now work with environment stakeholders in protecting water sources from human activities.
