The Euro4Euro tree growing drive inaugural planting successfully conducted

The Euro for Euro campaign is a Rotary Club of Kampala Central drive to raise resources to fulfill Rotary’s 7th Area of Focus. After the club received 3000 Euros from the Total Foundation, the club intentionally organized to create immense visibility on the Mission green activities by matching the Euro4Euro. The drive, a fundraiser has a target to raise 5000 trees and each of the tree costing 5000 Uganda shillings.

Because of existing partnerships with the Nyenga Seminary Community, and coupled with the mobilization by the Nyenga Subcounty Kingdom officials, the club managed to plant on half of an acre, close to 260 fruit trees and medicinal trees.

The trees planted were; mangoes, citrus, star fruit, prunus Africana, moringa, gravella and giant lira trees.

To manage sustainability, a community-based approach was adopted whereby the community was first sensitized, ownership attained then the tree planting undertaken. The club has had trees planted in St Joseph’s Seminary Nyenga from way back in time, and the club during the inaugural planting, also visited the previously planted trees to access the growth rate. The monitoring was evident that there had been an 80%
survival rate.

As part of its corporate social responsibility, the Total Foundation encompasses citizenship initiatives carried out every day around the world at Total sites, affiliates and corporate foundations. In keeping with Total’s history, businesses and values, it is based on the following four priority areas: Road Safety, Forests and Climate, Youth Inclusion and Education, Cultural Dialogue and Heritage.

Through its employee initiative You Act We Help (YAWH) run by the Foundation an employee in Uganda who is a member of the club was able to submit a proposal to the Foundation and get funding for the club’s tree planting initiatives.