According to GPL – in a statement to which VerAngola had access – this program, whose launch is scheduled for this Friday, aims to reverse the loss of trees in Luanda.
"With the aim of reversing the scenario of tree loss throughout the entire province of Luanda, encouraging the emergence of more green areas and aiming to promote soil and environmental health, the Provincial Government of Luanda holds, this Friday, December 15th, at the Hotel Intercontinental Luanda Miramar, from 3 pm, the Launch of the Luanda Afforestation Program", reads the note.
Thus, the statement adds, Luanda's afforestation program envisages the planting of more than one million trees by 2027, "to guarantee better living conditions and public health at the province level".
The day after the program launch ceremony, the first trees will be planted.
"The launching ceremony will be followed by the planting of the first 6000 trees, throughout the municipality of Luanda, on Saturday, 16th, whose starting point will be Avenida Lueji A'Nkonde, in the Urban District of Sambizanga, starting at 8:30 am ", informs GPL.