Elizabeth Ama Agyakwa, the headmistress of the Suhum Senior High Technical School (SUTESCO) in the Eastern Region, has requested that the students take the lead in planting trees.
She explained that the only way to do this was to teach their parents at home the importance of planting and caring for tree seedlings in order to protect the environment.
On Friday, May 26, 2023, Mrs. Agyakwa made the announcement during a tree-planting activity on the school's property.
The children at the school planted nearly 200 tree seedlings of various kinds as a result of the activity, which was planned and supported by ASA Savings and Loans Company Limited in association with the Eastern Regional Office of the Forestry Commission.
Acasia, mahogany, nim, royal palm, and rain trees were among the tree species.
The firm plants more than 2,000 tree saplings countrywide each year, and this event was a part of that effort.
The headmistress claimed that it had become essential to include pupils in tree planting in order to preserve the environment as well as school structures, particularly the roofs, from damage during storms.
The experience, according to Mrs. Agyakwa, came to complement what the kids had learned about tree planting, which they had previously only received theoretical instruction on.
"Because there were trees, our ancestors lived longer, but now that we are taking them down needlessly, people are dying young because of the saying, "When the last tree dies, we will all perish," said Mrs. Agyakwa.
She commended the corporation for picking the school to plant tree seedlings so that the pupils would have shade.
The major goal of the tree planting activity in the school, according to David Amevor, the Koforidua Area Manager of ASA Savings and Loans, was to provide shade for them and also to improve the environment of the school.
He said that they had already covered the Koforidua Prisons and the Suhum Senior High Technical School and that they would be conducting comparable drills in other parts of the nation.
According to Mr. Amevor, the company's corporate social responsibility includes planting trees to promote the government's Green Ghana Project.
Alex Adonteng, a representative of the Forestry Commission's Eastern Regional Office, encouraged the school's administration to make sure that the newly planted tree seedlings were fostered and added that the Commission would follow up to make sure the trees were better cared for.
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