Stories of change
The trees they planted themselves
“Sir told us the tree is ours now. I water it before class.”
In 2018 we started planting saplings at schools across the district rather than on empty municipal land. The reasoning was straightforward: a tree planted by an official and left alone rarely survives its first dry season.
Each child chooses a sapling, digs the hole and plants it. The tree is then theirs to water. Teachers keep a rota.
Several of those first saplings are now taller than the children who planted them.
