Traditional practitioner Cheick Amidou Bissiri organized, on Sunday August 18, 2024, reforestation in his grove located in Gourcy, near national road No. 2. 1,400 plants were planted thanks to the population mobilized for the occasion.
The population of Gourcy and surrounding villages mobilized on Sunday August 18, 2024 for reforestation organized by the famous traditional healer Cheick Amidou Bissiri.
This activity, which was attended by administrative, customary and religious authorities, was chaired by the high commissioner of the province of Zondoma, Aboubacar Sidiki Nabé.
‘I use plants a lot in the treatment of the patients I receive; This is why I made it my duty to carry out this reforestation as a restoration of nature which we request enormously for our various needs,’ declared the Cheick.
He recognizes that such actions are necessary to ensure the availability of the main resource of his business, namely plants.
For the High Commissioner, it is a citizen initiative to be encouraged, because it
is part of the dynamic launched by the highest authorities of the country through National Tree Day.
‘I invite the daughters and sons of the province to follow the example of the Cheick in restoring the environment,’ indicated the first official of the province.
A total of 1,400 plants, consisting of fruit trees and species commonly used in traditional medicine, were planted in the grove, which covers several completely fenced hectares.
Cheick Amidou Bissiri, resident in the village of Kouba, a few kilometers from Gourcy, is well known in the region for his works in the field of traditional medicine. This reforestation day took place just after the provincial launch of National Tree Day, which took place the day before at the Tangzoug Yargo school, in sector 4 of Gourcy.
Source: Burkina Information Agency