On the heels of the climate summit, Kyotera Area has teamed up with the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI), a Non-Profit Organization founded with mandates focused on mobilizing and empowering communities to carry out activities in areas of; enhancing food security, improving primary health care, ensuring profitable income generation through agriculture, environmental protection, water and sanitation and promoting entrepreneurship and appropriate technologies.
Over the years, CIDI’s strategic actions have been directed at improving the lives of the poor, vulnerable and marginalized through community empowerment and provision of material and technical support through a multi- program approach in areas of; Sustainable agriculture, Water and sanitation, Health and Advocacy and governance.
The initiative rolled out by the Area Manager-Kyotera, Mr. Moses Kisiibo coupled with the School Water and Sanitation Clubs’ coordinator, Mr. Ian Muganwa, aimed to engage the youth groups in Luanda sub-county, Rakai under CIDI to roll out the “Quick Tree Transplanting Programme. This encompasses selection of important species managed through established Community Cooperatives in the two districts.
The Senior field extension officer for CIDI, Ms. Babra Nattabi, appreciated NWSC for coming up with a timely collaboration strategy in conserving the environment in Rakai and Kyotera districts with both NWSC and CIDI’s jurisdictions.
The team participated in tree planting and showing the community the best maintenance and management practices both on the nurseries and field agronomics while using abundant organic manure to grow trees to fruition.
On its part, NWSC availed 3,500 Accacia and Greferia seedlings to the youth groups at the CIDI-NWSC Luanda Nursery bed centre.
The idea of NWSC tapping into a tree planting drive to achieve its goal of Water for all, is not far-fetched but rather just what is needed right now, in an era where global warming and climate change have dominated major waves and continue to fuel the global water scarcity crisis.
