As parts of this year’s International Youth Day celebration the Jigawa State Environmental Protection Agency (JISEPA) in partnership with United Nations Childrens Education Fund (UNICEF) has engaged and supporting hundreds of youth and lunched massive tree planting in three Nigerian/Niger boarder local government areas in the state.
Speaking while launching the project at Sule-tankarkar town the headquarter of local government area, the managing director of the Jigawa State Environmental Protection Agency JISEPA Alhaji Adamu Sabo said, his agency with support of the UNICEF has engaged hundreds of youth in Babura, Maigari and Suletankarkar local government areas in the state on planting and maintenance of the trees.
Sabo explained that, three frontline local government areas of deforestation and desertification including Sule-tankarkar, Maigari and Babura are selected and engaged Youths on planting massive trees in all the areas.
According to him, “the idea of engaging Youths on tree planting project is line with the present administration’s 12 point agenda agenda, mitigation of climate change, erosion desertification control and observance of carbondioxide.”
He started further that “availability of trees would also provides more oxygen for human use.”
The managing director then, commended UNICEF for the support and urged Youths to embrace tree planting habit by at least planting one tree in their life.
In his part, the Programme Specialist, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), UNICEF Field Office Kano. Dr. Uba Lawal said, the tree planting campaign is a key approach to mitigating the effects of Climate Change, especially in the semi-arid areas of northern Jigawa where deforestation has severely affected the region.
“The campaign targets to plant 1,500 trees 900 trees have already been planted in Babura, where JISEPA and UNICEF provides different types of seedlings for both economical and non economical trees.
“UNICEF is supporting Jigawa State Government by providing resources to mobilize and educate the people of Jigawa on the importance of tree planting and the role that youth will play, being the leaders of tomorrow,” he said.
The programme specialist, urged Youths to lead in sustaining and nurturing the trees being planted as they are the foremost beneficiaries of a greener future.
“In apparent recognition of the importance of the tree planting campaign in mitigating the effects of climate change, the youth of Jigawa have decided to focus on tree planting to celebrate the International Youth Day,” he said.
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