{"id":11795,"date":"2017-02-21T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2017-02-21T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:43:57","slug":"integrity-of-creation-in-kasamba-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/integrity-of-creation-in-kasamba-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity of Creation in Kasamba, Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"integrity-of-creation-01blog\"<\/a>By Benjamin Itungabose, M.Afr<\/span><\/p>\n

Like elsewhere the phenomenon of deforestation raises a lot of concerns in Zambia. People cut down trees for various reasons. Due to the current electricity problems in cities people use charcoal as their source of energy more than ever before. Hence burning charcoal has become the main source of income for people in rural areas. Thousands of bags of charcoal are taken to Lusaka and Copperbelt day and night. Luapula province which used to be a land of vegetation is gradually losing its identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Missionaries of Africa working in Kasamba, we felt that we had to do something about this phenomenon. In view of raising awareness about the care of our environment, last year we undertook a tree planting project in our Parish. So far we have planted about 3,500 pine trees. We wish to extend this project to at least 10,000 trees in the coming years.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is more encouraging is that the people of Kasamba are now becoming aware of the importance of planting trees. At the end of last year Caritas Mansa gave to each parish 200 seedlings of pine trees to give to their members. \u00a0Personally I was amazed to see how people literally fought over those seedlings. Because of this increasing interest in planting trees we are planning together with the Justice and Peace group of Kasamba to have a seminar about how to make nurseries in order to produce more seedlings. In this way we hope that our mission of caring for our environment will extend to the entire Parish and hopefully to the entire Diocese<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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This article was translated into French on ‘\u00c9glise & \u00c9cologie’ (E&E) blog. Please, click on the link or on the logo for more information.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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FORETS \u2013 Donne nous nos pins\u00a0quotidiens<\/a><\/h3>\n

Publi\u00e9 le\u00a026 f\u00e9vrier 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

La Zambie est, elle aussi, touch\u00e9e par la d\u00e9forestation. Des\u00a0religieux missionnaires d\u2019Afrique<\/a>\u00a0ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de r\u00e9agir, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de Kasamba. Ils t\u00e9moignent de leur mobilisation sur leur site (en anglais)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Les gens coupent les arbres pour diff\u00e9rentes raisons. Du fait des coupures d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 dans les villes, les gens utilisent le charbon de bois comme source d\u2019\u00e9nergie plus que jamais. De plus, ce charbon de bois devient ainsi la principale source de revenus dans les zones rurales. Des milliers de chargements de charbon de bois sont emmen\u00e9s vers Lusaka et Copperbelt, jour et nuit. Du coup, la province de Luapula qui \u00e9tait une terre de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation, est en train de perdre son identit\u00e9. Comme missionnaires d\u2019Afrique travaillant \u00e0 Kasamba, nous avons ressenti que nous devions faire quelque chose. Pour faire grandir la prise de conscience sur les d\u00e9fis de la protection de l\u2019environnement, nous avons entrepris depuis un an un projet de reforestation dans notre paroisse. Nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 plant\u00e9 3500 arbres et nous esp\u00e9rons arriver \u00e0 10 000 dans les ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir. Ce qui est le plus encourageant, c\u2019est que les gens de Kasamba commencent \u00e0 comprendre notre d\u00e9marche. A la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, l\u2019association Caritas Mansa a donn\u00e9 200 plants de pins \u00e0 chaque paroisse, pour les distribuer \u00e0 leurs membres. J\u2019\u00e9tais \u00e9tonn\u00e9 de voir comment les gens se sont disput\u00e9s pour en avoir. Nous envisageons maintenant d\u2019organiser un colloque pour cr\u00e9er une p\u00e9pini\u00e8re pour produire davantage de plants. Nous esp\u00e9rons ainsi que notre soin de l\u2019environnement sera repris pour toute la paroisse voire notre dioc\u00e8se en entier.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"m-afr-logo-web-rome\"<\/strong><\/span>\u00c9galement disponible sur le site des Missionnaires d\u2019Afrique \u00e0 Rome\u00a0:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Int\u00e9grit\u00e9 de la Cr\u00e9ation \u00e0 Kasamba (Zambie)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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