Equity Bank and partners plant trees in Ugandan schools
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Equity Bank Uganda and My Tree Initiative Uganda began a program to plant 200,000 trees in schools throughout Uganda by December 2027, starting with a planting at Nakanyonyi Secondary School in Mukono district.
The Equi Green Schools Programme will unfold in two phases. During the first phase, running through the end of 2024, the groups will plant 50,000 trees across 25 schools in 10 districts. The remaining 150,000 trees will be planted in 2027 as school orchards.
This initiative builds on a previous partnership where Equity Bank and My Tree Initiative planted 1,500 trees at Kyasanku Hill College in Mpigi district. Rtd. Gen. Katumba Wamala, Uganda’s minister for Public Service, encouraged other private sector companies to support similar environmental efforts. Equity Bank intends the program to engage students directly in conservation.
The effort also supports Equity Group’s broader goal of planting 35 million trees across East Africa as part of its Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan, addressing Uganda’s declining forest cover, which has fallen from 24 percent to below 9 percent in recent decades.
