Environment: greening public schools

This project, carried out in all the schools on the island, is intended to make these spaces more welcoming, comfortable and educational.
The selected species provide shade to improve thermal comfort, and also promote biodiversity by favoring local plants. In this context, this richness of Creole garden culture is also transmitted to schoolchildren.

Greening is structured around two phases. The first consists of greening existing and often neglected spaces.

83 trees including 23 fruit trees (soursop, cythera plum, guava, pomegranate, quenettier etc.) and 42 endemic trees (bois d'inde, cocoplum, red gum, local pear, flamboyant etc.) have been planted and are still at the sapling stage. Their development is gradual because planting a tree at this stage promotes better adaptation to its environment, thus ensuring healthy and robust growth. In three years, their impact will be clearly visible. They will reach maturity in seven years, thus providing shade and biodiversity.

The second phase includes the creation of new green spaces, the installation of planting containers for vegetable garden workshops involving students, and the reintroduction of shade trees in concrete planters in the fully mineralized courtyards. This project will continue at All Saints' Day and during the Christmas holidays with the planting of 47 additional trees.

This project is financed by the State Green Fund to the tune of €700,000. This cost takes into account maintenance to strengthen the plantations over a period of one year. The work undertaken on 7 different schools represents €300,000. The greening program will continue during the All Saints and Christmas holidays in the 10 remaining schools.
At the same time, a public domain beautification program is planned for 2025, reinforcing this effort with the preferential planting of shade trees, as well as ornamental perennials to increase the plant density of the territory.