Florence Mutesi
3 November 2007
Kigali — Hundreds of thousands of moringa tree seedlings have been planted for nutritional and medicinal purposes in a massive five-day campaign that covered three districts.
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) spearheaded the campaign which ended yesterday in Bugesera, Huye and Kayonza districts.
The project will benefit WFP-supported hospitals with therapeutic feeding centres, schools, refugee camps, people living with HIV/Aids and beneficiaries of food-for-work projects.
The WFP Country Director, Maarit Hirvonen and the IRST Director General, Dr Jean Baptiste Nduwayezu, launched the distribution and planting of 400,000 Moringa tree seedlings in those districts, according to a statement from the UN agency.
Seven moringa nurseries have been established in each of the three districts.
Six months after planting, families and institutions will be able to use the leaves, fruit, flowers, bark, seeds and gum of the Moringa trees for nutritional and medicinal purposes.
Moringa tree seed pod is used for water purification to kill microbes.
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