ACACIA'S Buzwagi Gold Mine has set aside 600,000 US dollars (about 1,2bn/-) for tree planting in Kahama District. The mine Sustainability Manager George Mkanza said the money set to plant 1.6 million trees starting this rain season.
"We (Buzwagi) will not plan those trees
rather paying for planters as a community income generation facility,"
Mr Mkanza told the 'Daily News' during a one-way reporters tour of the
mine today. The programme involving giving trees to planters and the
mine will pay for every tree growing to some acceptable level.
The planter will be given the task of
watering the trees and protecting them from drying out. Kahama receives
700 milliliters of rain a year. Also the district faces trees declining
trend which do not match with planting ratio.
Last year Buzwagi constructed 15 deep
boreholes around Mwendakulima communities that surround the mine. On top
of that built a health centre at Mwendakulima which is the first such
centre for Kahama municipal.
The health centre has the capacity to
receive over 70 outpatients a day. At the moment the centre has some 25
staff. The centre is powered by solar power, with rain water collection
and storage systems and has staff house.
Mwendakulima Health Centre went into operations last December and was full furnished by Buzwagi mine.
The mine constructed another primary
school for Budushi community that took its first standard one pupils in
July. Under corporate social responsibility, Buzwagi constructed three
full fledged primary schools and one secondary school, about five
secondary school laboratories.
It also constructed 5.0 km of tarmac road and 12km of gravel road in Kahama.
The low grade mine spent some 1.6 million US dollars a year on corporate social responsibility projects.
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