According to Rwanda’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Stanislas Kamanzi, almost 20 million trees – both forest species and agroforest species – will be planted this week throughout the country. This morning, AoC’s Eric, Innocent, Valerie, and I loaded the truck with seedlings from the AoC garden and headed to Kinigi to meet our students and plant trees.

Earlier this year, our students planted seedlings outside of their school. Please view earlier post.

Minister Kamanzi is at Gishwati Forest today where efforts are being made to recover lost forest due to human encroachment, deforestation and small-scale farming.

Planting more trees with the help from my dog, Ibyiza.

Rwanda will be attending the Copenhagen Summit for Climate Change in December.

We’re finished for the day with 100 additional seedlings in the ground.

More from Mr. Kamanzi at AllAfrica.com.