By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
During the visit of the Minister of Health to our villages in July, personally handed out awards for individual reforestation successes. This important ceremony has reinvigorated great community interest in our tree planting efforts. Distributing these awards, made everybody see and believe that Zahana really meant awarding reforestation efforts, and sparked a sense of healthy competition. Zahana stated from the beginning that we will give awards in the first, second and the third year for most of the trees planted that actually take root and survive. Now the planting of tree seedlings can continue.
To take stock of our success so far, we have asked our two gardeners Bari and Jean to please reports back about the number of trees planted. Here are their numbers (as of October 14, 2013):
Planting trees Fiadanana:
2011-2012: 3,317
2012-2013: 3,278
Total= 6,595
Reforestation objective for this 2013 season: at least 6,595 trees
Planting trees in Fiarenana, the village where our master gardener Jean lives:
2009-2010: 2,629
2010-2011: 2,129
2011-2012: 6,092
2012-2013: 2,553
Total = 13,403
Reforestation objective for this 2013 season: 10,600
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