Make Suba Green Again
The Suba that existed decades ago was calming, inviting, beautiful, and green. I vividly remember the mornings, the sunrise slowly emerging above the trees, hugging the hills, making them barely visible.
The sun rays, upon hitting heights above the hills, were blinding as they fell on Lake Victoria, reflecting upon its surface. The hills hidden amidst the trees would be engulfed in fog and mist until midday when the sun would penetrate through the leafy shroud, clearing up the view.
The place I called home, whose nature was pure, boasted lands with high productivity and frequent rains, ensuring an abundance of crop yields and flowers in bloom.
As a young boy, those journeys uphill with friends, siblings, and cousins were my favorite pastime where we would gather wild fruits naturally growing amongst the dense bushes and trees. It is indeed quite sad that such memories are a thing of the past, and that the coming generations will know this reality only through stories.
Stolen from them are days when we would run and jump, diving into the nearby river that was ever-flowing and so regularly replenished that in rainy seasons the water would break its banks.
The Suba I grew up in was the most beautiful place you could ever lay your eyes on but in the last two decades so much has changed that it is no longer traceable to its history.
This project is a long-time plan to recover the once-lost treasure of nature that had Suba glamourous as it's surrounded by Lake Victoria and the hills rising towards greater horizons from the water body. 'Suba City' is a possibility and a golden vision. Join Us in Furthering this initiative....
The once beautiful scenes faded in decades lapsing have inspired the Greening Suba Again initiative that aims at planting trees on the Gwassi Hills, restoring Suba to its long-lost glory.
In progress is an NGO registration, Climate Lens NGO, which will explore locally-based solutions to climate-related challenges such as water scarcity, food insecurity, and energy poverty.
The goal is to establish a pipeline to pump water from the lake through to the farms and bestow upon each household custodianship of up to ten trees. We will need to re-plant the trees, implement climate-smart agricultural practices, and find innovative ways to recycle waste.