The GEF Small Grants Programme

in Uzbekistan

How will schools grow trees?

NGO Indigo is preparing an initiative in which it plans to show all schools, their directors and teachers how to create interesting lessons in which children will grow trees.

With the help of simple devices, schoolchildren can collect seed, seeds, and grow seedlings of local trees in the classrooms. Then these seedlings can be planted in the ground. Children will prepare planting material and plant trees not only in the city, but also create small forests in the areas previously allocated for this.

Also, as part of this initiative, it is planned to create small bags of seeds of our local tree species, which will be sold through local retail chains. Everyone will be able to buy such prepared seeds and pour them anywhere so that they germinate. So people will be able to contribute to the spread of trees throughout Uzbekistan.

We hope that as many schools as possible will follow this example and that it will become a routine for the educational process in schools. So we can raise a generation that plants trees.

We are waiting for news from this initiative.