Jato Sonita, Forest Green Children,YOP Take Tree Planting to Hospital to Fight Climate Change


Jato Sonita and Regional Hospital Director representative planting trees.

Trees placed around healthcare facilities benefit customers and visitors by allowing for faster recuperation, privacy for patients and staff, better air quality, and traps carbon dioxide that contaminates the air.

Jato Sonita and the Forest Children, in partnership with Youth Outreach Programme, YOP, have begun on a tree-planting mission to the Bamenda Regional Hospital to support this healthcare centre with eco-friendly trees in the Hospital's environs. According to the manager of Jato Sonita & the Forest Children, the gesture is in accordance with their objective of forest protection.


Jato Sonita, Forest Children and YOP Staff

Sonita and the Forest Children planted over five umbrella plants in accordance with hospital administration guidelines on their first hospital tour. Jato Sonita describes tree planting process as a method of giving back to the forest. 

"As you can see, we are a natural product... So we decided to replant the trees we had been using in order to protect ourselves and prevent #ClimateChange by growing #eco-friendly trees" Sonita explained.

According to Stella Cheah, the acting Co-ordinator of the Youth Outreach Programme, boosting young people's initiative like this lays the groundwork for a better society, thereby motivating other young people to defend the community. "We saw this as an opportunity to develop young people's capacity because if we have a strong foundation with young people, the community will grow to be strong..." Stella Cheah expounds.

YOP Staff and management of Jato Sonita and the forest Children

The initiative has been praised by the Bamenda Regional Hospital Director, Dr. Nsame Denis, and his management team. They congratulated the children for thinking sustainably and urged other children to follow Sonita and her peers' best practises at a time when the UN considers the climate crisis to be one of the most difficult crises the world is currently facing.

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