Uganda: Nile Breweries to Plant Trees in Big Towns
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New Vision (Kampala)
29 July 2008
Posted to the web 30 July 2008
Frank Mugabi
Kampala
BEER maker, Nile Breweries, has launched a tree-planting campaign to be carried out in all major towns countrywide.
The drive code-named 'Green Towns Project' was on Saturday inaugurated in Arua municipality during which over 50 palm trees were planted along streets in the town centre.
Children below 10 years were guided to plant trees as a gesture of incorporating everybody in the project.
Others who planted trees were soldiers led by the West Nile army spokesman, Capt. Robert Kamara, the Arua mayor, Charles Asiki, division chairpersons and the public.
The Nile Breweries corporate affairs director, Onapito Ekomoloit, said the project was prompted by the increasing use of concrete and lack of green open spaces in towns.
We want to join municipal and city authorities as well as the communities in the towns to create greenery along major streets.
"Ugandan towns are heavily exposed without good vegetation, no trees and this is why you have dust," he said.
"The beauty of trees is that not only do they absorb dust but also stabilise road reserves and when it rains they reduce floods. But above all, trees make the town beautiful."
Each town, including Gulu, Mbarara and Kabale, which are on the immediate rollout plan, Onapito stated, would receive up to 200 trees depending on the length of the streets and avenues to be covered.
He added that the Jinja-based firm would spend millions of shillings in the project as part of its corporate social responsibility.
"This is what we do for the community over and above our normal business of selling beer to them."
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Asiki commended the company for the 'brilliant idea', noting that it would help keep the towns green and attractive.
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