community leadership in addressing climate change.

At the moment, AFOGWAD is implementing a project “community leadership in addressing climate change.” In this project we have set up community demonstration tree nursery bed in some of the communities we are operating in. The community around each demonstration grounds is trained on how to raise young tree seedlings, most especially the pines, budding and grafting of fruit tree seedlings like oranges and mangoes to ensure the sustainability of the project. The community is also trained on how to look after these young trees after from the nursery bed. We also use these meetings with them to tell them how serious the need for us to plant trees now and not tomorrow is. This is helping us to get really the community understanding on the climate change, and partially we found out that their knowledge about this global threat is still very low, hence there is still much need for this advocacy.