This project campaign will plant 100 fruit trees in each benefiting rural school in Nigeria to help vulnerable children with improved nutritional benefits and save kids from wildlife attacks and human-induced assaults. We are using fruit trees as a resource to raise happy, healthy children who lead the future with confidence. The project also helps prevent schoolchildren from missing classes while searching for food to eat in bushes during school hours and develops young climate action leaders.
In addition to the increasing climate crisis in Nigeria, many children from poor homes who barely feed well leave school to search for fruits in bushes, missing studies, fall victim to human-induced assaults and perform poorly in exams.
The RUWAI fruit trees for school program is planting more fast-growing fruit trees within the schoolyards this year and giving out more to take home. The kids are taught how to invest in their future by restoring ecosystems through economic tree planting and becoming climate action ambassadors in their local communities. This helps the children to stay focused on their studies, enhance their diets and increase tree planting education while protecting them, especially the girls, from assault.
The project will plant fruit trees in selected schools that provide food and improved diets for children, academic performance, reduce environmental degradation and reduce wildlife attacks and human-induced assaults on kids. There will be increased awareness about tree planting and its benefits to humans and the planet.
