Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor has partner with the Freetown City Council under the leadership of Mayor Aki-Sawyerr, to build urban Climate Resilience by planting and growing one million trees in Freetown.

FEDURP comprises vulnerable women, men, youth and children who are mobilized around dynamic saving schemes, networked at settlement, city and national levels to drive a collective, bottom-up initiatives influencing change towards inclusive and resilient cities and localities, and contribute to national development agenda.

According to Mayor Ali-Sawyerr, the plan is not only to plant one million trees within two rainy seasons but to grow them, which will entails involving communities, tracking, monitoring their growths and bringing new lives to Hill Sides, Mangroves and forested Areas.

She added that these Million trees will not fix Climate Change but it will reduce Flooding and Landslide and will ensure that we bring back biodiversity into our cities.

She ended, that Planting one million trees would really make a significant impact in Freetown. “It will ensure that the Mangrove areas where our Fishes are ponds, are restored” she said.