MTN Rwanda staff joined the national tree planting campaign, on Friday, by planting trees at Nyandungu on the outskirts of Kigali City. In the heavy shower, they planted 2,200 trees.
MTN Rwanda staff joined the national tree planting campaign, on Friday, by planting trees at Nyandungu on the outskirts of Kigali City. In the heavy shower, they planted 2,200 trees.
The telecom company has been planting trees at the same site since 2007, and spends an average of Rwf12 million a year to maintain the site, the company said.
Speaking to the media, Paul Mugemangango, the MTN Senior Legal and Corporate Affairs Manager, said that, in the past, they also took part in another ‘green’ project dubbed as "Project Adopt a Tree”, through which they planted over 100,000 trees in different schools across the country.
MTN Rwanda also maintains Kigali’s Kimihurura Roundabout, where the company spends in excess of Rwf20 million, company officials said.
The Government has set a target of 44 million trees to have been planted by March 2011, and an ultimate goal of having the country’s 30% land covered by forests by 2013.
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