GEORGE NEWS - The Thembalethu Primary School received a donation of six trees on Wednesday 6 September as part of National Arbor Week. 

The trees were donated by Aurecon in partnership with the Garden Route Botanical Garden.

Arbor Week is celebrated from 1 to 7 September annually. 

The week serves to promote awareness of the need to plant and maintain indigenous trees throughout South Africa. 

Citizens are urged to plant indigenous trees as a practical and symbolic gesture of sustainable environmental management.

This year the South African government focused on planting trees in towns, townships and informal settlements specifically, because these areas developed without planning for parks or the planting of trees in streets and open spaces.

Thembalethu Primary School learners were informed of the importance of trees.

ARTICLE & PHOTOS: ZOLANI SINXO, GEORGE HERALD JOURNALIST

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