Trees for Peace: The Global Campaign for the Children of Ukraine

Tree Planting Campaign

The Trees for Peace will be planted in cities and peri-urban areas, among smallholder farmers, in rural areas, in denuded and degraded land, replanting trees on the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and as part of the 4,750 miles of the Great Green Wall of Africa, jointly built by 21 African countries as a barrier against the Sahara Desert. The tree planting campaign will rely on experts and organizations with expertise in tree planting and environmental campaigns to refine and oversee the tree planting campaign so that it is easy to execute and sustain and successful within the framework of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) stated in the 2030 Agenda. This aspect of the campaign will be guided and led by leading environmental organizations such as the Kenya-based Greenbelt Movement, founded by 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Wangari Maathai.

Lead Role for African Children

The initial stage of the campaign will be led by African children who survived armed conflicts from war-torn and post-conflict countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Liberia, Somalia,Cameroon, Mali, Sierra Leone, Libya, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Uganda, and Mozambique.