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Children’s tale takes root in West Africa’s fight to regrow its forests

Planting trees also provides shade in schools in West Africa. © Xam Xam

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa.

In 2020, journalist Arnaud Wust wrote a children's story during a Covid-19 lockdown. What began as a family project has since blossomed into Xam Xam – an organisation teaching school children in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire about environmental protection through storytelling and tree planting.

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