Monrovia – The Safer Community Initiative of Liberia in partnership (SCIL) with ForumCiv on Monday, December 5, ended a two-day farmers’ engagement rights and way forward training, on climate action in Tubmanburg, Bomi County.
SCIL is a local non-governmental organization operating in the county that was established in 2018 with the aim to create awareness on Land and Forest management for a three-year duration.
The training, which conglomerated 50 farmers in the six project communities, was held under the theme “Climate Smart Action for the Promotion of Sustainable Land and Environment Management.
Speaking to a reporter on the rationale of the two days of capacity-building training conducted in Tubmanburg, the Project Extension Officer of SCIL, Wallace Tahn, noted that the farmer’s engagement workshop was intended to educate farmers in the county on Land and Forest conservation.
He further pointed out that his organization is engaged in championing the calls for citizens in various communities to manage what he described as their “God given resources.”
The Project Extension Officer of SCIL however attributed the illegal cutting down of trees by farmers in the communities to the lack of proper education given to them.
Tahn used the medium to call on farmers, especially those in the rural areas to desist from what he termed as the unnecessary cutting down of trees for coal burning.
Meanwhile, speaking on behalf of participants, Massa Freeman, Joseph Goll, and Kumba Kollie, thanked the SCIL family for what they described as life-changing training.
They further assured the facilitators of SCIL to be ambassadors of change in their respective communities, thereby promising to educate their colleagues on the danger of deforestation.