Green for Future

Save the Children supported 10 schools to organise a ‘Tree Planting Festival’ in Tien Giang Province to increase the children’s awareness of environmental protection and climate change adaptation.

Nearly 300 children aged from 9 to 15 participated in the festival by the end of May where they were provided with eucalyptus seedlings and trained on how to grow by Save the Children staff and the school teachers.

The children also presented messages to highlight the importance of green environment and what communities should do to adapt to climate variability.

“I am happy to join this event and want to do something for the environment. In the future I hope that all the trees will grow well even with the hot and harsh weather”, said a student of Thai Nam School, Nguyen Van Toan.

The activity is part of Save the Children’s community based climate change adaptation programme which has been implemented in the flood-prone province of Tien Giang.

The programme is to support children and their communities to plan and manage the impacts of climate variability and to increase the government’s body’s responsibility in meeting the needs of vulnerable children and communities.