Uganda: Karimojong Embrace Tree Planting

9 September 2010

Kampala — Over 500 Karimojong households of the Jie and Dodoth ethnicity, who were recently resettled in Moruita Peace Camp on the Kotido-Kaabong road, will soon benefit from a tree planting project.

The project, spearheaded by Mercy-cops, a non-governmental organisation, aims at improving the environment in the region that had been degraded as a result of felling trees for charcoal and building.

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