Wish you all the best for the year 2018!! Let's plant hope! By working together to leave a green footprint, our country has set a timeless history. In the past seven years, we have planted 48 billion saplings as a country with the cooperation of all Ethiopians. By planting 90 million saplings in our city in seven years, we were able to increase our green cover from a very low 2.8% to 24%. With our Green Footprint program, deprived areas are dressed in green; The rivers and areas that have been flattened have been able to revive. Our Addis Ababa has become clean, beautiful, comfortable to live and a tourist center. We plant hope, growth, prosperity, shade, food and prosperity. We plant not only for our benefit today, but not for future generations, but to inherit prosperity and prosperity. Today, we held a launch program on the banks of the Shale River in which the Speaker of the Federation Council, Hon. Dear residents of our city on the banks of the river; In health, education and religious institutions; I am calling on all citizens to work together to make our city a beautiful, clean and livable city by planting edible vegetables and fruits, shade and beauty trees in private sectors and streets. Planting a seedling is not enough, it needs care. Therefore, monitoring the seedlings we have planted. We must take care. May the Creator bless Ethiopia and its people! Mayor Adane Abebe