Community Tree Planting

Sub: Donate/Plant A Tree in Bugoma/Budongo Forests:

Greetings from Greening Uganda. By this mail, we’re inviting to join our FLAGSHIP Mass Tree Planting PROJECTS, Green Schools, Community Tree Planting, Degraded Forest Lands Restoration, and Trees For Tourism. This campaign runs twice a year coinciding with our rainy seasons March to May, and September to December, our activities focus on Urban Schools, Urban places of Worship, Urban Hospitals, Budongo & Bugoma forest degraded lands, and by the end of 60 days, a total of 1,000,000 Trees, will have been planted. This comes as a response to Climate Change to address the increasing heat waves, trees will be able to provide the most needed shade for the communities identified above. Similarly, planted trees will help carbon sequestering by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transforming it into biomass through photosynthesis. Join us on 28^th to 30^th October 2022 to plant 100,000 trees in Budongo and Bugoma Forests, for details visit https://greeninguganda.org/Projects/Bugoma_Forest_Tree_Planting

IMPORTANCE OF TREES IN URBAN SETTINGS:

Trees help regulate the local climate, produce oxygen, improve soil quality, attract wild life, and absorb CO2! In this article we are focus on their Carbon Capture capabilities, and how much CO2 they actually absorb. Did you know, one mature tree is capable of absorbing 22kg of Carbon per year, and that means 1 million absorb 22 million Kilograms of Carbon from the air.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Our logistical budget for the 2^nd season September-December 2022, Mass Tree Planting Campaigns is US$ 11,500 (43,96.000), you can help buy and donate trees to schools directly. You can visit some of our project activity pages at

https://greeninguganda.org/Our_Resources/IDF You can also register to participate physically in the tree planting exercise by dropping us an email at [email protected]

To view our Green Schools Project activity photographs, kindly visit us at https://www.facebook.com/pg/50milliontrees/photos/?tab=album&album_id=415490135164271

Greening Uganda as a Forestry Organisation, we as well work with communities to promote tree planting, conservation and environmental education, you can visit our activity photo gallery at https://web.facebook.com/pg/50milliontrees/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2020030544710214

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE:

1. As a POLITICIAN, you can engage your constituencies through radio & TV talk shows, town hall and community hall meetings sensitizing them about the importance of trees and tree planting, environmental/nature conservation, environmental protection, an CLIMATE CHANGE. Donate tree seedlings and participate in community/village tree planting activities, in schools and Churches etc

2. As COMPANIES, you can identify and engage your neighbourhoods in tree planting activities together with your staff by DONATING the most needed seedlings. You can as well convert your OFFICE/COMPANY/FACTORY Compound into a little Island Forest in your locality by planting trees both ORNAMENTAL AND FRUITS

3. As RELIGIOUS LEADERS, right from the pulpit, we can engage our CONGREGATIONS sensitizing them about the importance of trees and tree planting, environmental/nature conservation, environmental protection, an CLIMATE CHANGE. Donate tree seedlings and participate in community/village tree planting activities, in schools and around your Churches etc

4. As NGOs & CBOs, you can engage the communities you serve through radio & TV talk shows, town hall and community hall meetings sensitizing them about the importance of trees and tree planting, environmental/nature conservation, environmental protection, an CLIMATE CHANGE. Donate tree seedlings and participate in community/village tree planting activities, in schools and Churches etc. No matter how good the projects you implement, without taking care of mother nature, one day mother nature will respond badly, and all the good work you have done over the years will go to waste. Let us look at the example of Northern Kenya 2 years drought, its economic impact on society, kindly visit https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/17/we-will-all-die-in-kenya-prolonged-drought-takes-heavy-toll Locally we have witnessed Mother Nature responding badly in BUDUDA after tampering with forest cover in Mount Elgon, we have witnessed the same, in Kasese in Rwenzori Mountain, flooding around lake Albert.

5. As INDIVIDUALS, we all have communities or villages where we come from, you can donate trees to your villagemates, former school, village Church, you can also participate in our MASS Tree planting Campaigns e.g. Bundongo and Bugoma forests, for more details visit and register at https://greeninguganda.org/Projects/Bugoma_Forest_Tree_Planting

6. As SCHOOLS/COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES, you can massively participate in planting more trees in all your compasses, turning them into little ISLAND forests. If you do not have more space for tree planting, you can engage into donating and planting TREES in your neighbourhood communities.

BUDONGO FOREST RESTORATION:

On 28^th to 30^th October 2022, we will descend on Budongo and Bugoma Forests, to plant 100,000 in Budongo Forest degraded lands, for more details on on our past activities, kindly visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.2541090142604249

TREE FOR TOURISM:

In commemoration of World Tourism Day 27^th September, we will belatedly plant 100,000 trees in Urban & Rural tourism sites to promote conservation of indigenous tree species, and conservation of existing tourism sites, for more information, between 28^th & 30^th October 2022, kindly visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.2529081817138415