We have been planting indigenous trees and raising climate awareness in Chisengu, Chikwela and Kapuka villages in Chongwe through trainings and meetings. In these meetings, women have taken the center stage – In attendance, in planting trees and in getting their voices heard. In the first awareness meeting in a village called Chisengu located 15 […]
He has organized an awareness session with local farmers next week to discuss the benefits of agroforestry before distributing seedlings.
30 villagers showed up and registered to get tree seedlings for planting in January.
We do not have an office yet, so for this meeting we sat on the ground outside the Chongwe High School football pitch.
The headman welcomed our Chongwe Agroforestry Initiative project where we are going to be planting Leucaena trees around maize fields to improve soil fertility and help prevent water runoff in cases where there is excess rain. The Leucaena trees will act as a live fence and help prevent flooding.
