Tree of Life

One of the projects we worked on today was inspired by one of the students drawings which was part of a project he did that included a written piece which I'm sharing here because it really moved me.

"The Tree of Life"

by Dickson Agborgbor Age 11, Class 5B, E.P. Ho Primary School, Ghana

The tree in the drawing represents life, so I named it Tree of Life.  This symbolic tree carries the whole Mother earth on its branches.  This means all livelihood on our dear Mother Earth depends largely on this symbolic tree.  One can conclude that the survival of our dear Mother Earth depends on the survival of the Tree.

Unfortunately, our attitude, represented in the drawing by someone cutting the tree of life is threatening the very existence of the Tree of Life and by the extension of life of humans and other creations including aquatic life

This drawing actually aims at presenting the important roles trees and other green vegetations play in rainfall, cooling of our Mother Earth, fixing of oxygen into the atmosphere, shelter and even food.

Indeed, the day the last tree dies, the last humankind will also die.  So let us protect trees and Mother Earth and life will be safe for all of us.

Long live Mother Earth.  Long live creation.

Original drawing that we based our mural on. (yes, those are spoons holding the corners down because we had no tape!)

Working on the Tree of Life mural or in Ewe: Agbe (life) fe (of) Ati (tree).

Our tree has leaves that each student made with words of things that they celebrate in life