Rotary club in climate change initiative

Rotary Club of Lilongwe-Lingadzi President, Eveline Sibindi Van Dam said her club is committed to adopting various programs such as conducting tree planting exercises among other things that would help to fight against climate change in the country.

In an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana), Sibindi Van Dam said as a club they are concerned with the problems which are happening in the country because of climate change; hence they decided to help in combating the challenge.

“As a club, environmental management is one of our key focus areas, for this reason we decided to join the government and other stakeholders in coming up with measures such as planting more trees in order to address the issue of climate change in the country,” Sibindi Van Dam said.

Recently, the club together with its partner known as Open Spaces Inc, donated over 2000 trees at Shire Urban Primary School and during the donation they planted about 200 fruit and native trees at the school.

In his remarks, one of the country’s environmental activists, Mathews Malata hailed Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) including clubs like Rotary Club of Lilongwe-Lingadzi for their gesture in helping the government to deal with the issue of climate change in the country.

Source:MANA