4 secondary schools will assist the reforestation of the Island by planting 50,000 indigenous tree seedlings at road surroundings (e.g. the Rusinga Ring Road and some of the prominent feeder roads), at an arboretum plot and on their school compounds.. The planting will be carried out by the school pupils and the cultivation of the seedlings on road surroundings and the arboretum will be carried out by unemployed youth groups. Activities: each school to plant woodlots with at least 5000 trees, the 4 schools to jointly plant 20,000 trees (pepper tree) on both sides of the roads,each school to undertake a development project using at most 175,000 shillings given by the project, the 4 schools to take part in developing an arboretum with at least 50 acres of indigenous, medicinal trees, this will be 25,000 trees, the four schools to plant trees in other public plots such as chiefs camp etc. 3 people to be engaged to water and look after the seedlings for 12 months @ 3000 shilling per person per month, 3 people to draw water using donkey carts for 12 months @3000 per person per month