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Our Work In Kenya |
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| Trees for the Future's (TREES) Current Participants: | |||||||||
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| In the past TREES' has concentrated in two places. TREES has been involved for years with Spirit in Action's Ukweli Training and Development Center (UTDC) in El Doret, helping them train communities and plant trees. The UTDC is also very involved in a myriad of other development activities, and we are working o help them in their goal of further expanding their nurseries along a local river in 2005-2006. | |||||||||
| 120 miles to the south of the UTDC, Trees for the Future has established the John Denver Memorial Forest on Rusinga Island in Homa Bay. | |||||||||
| Now, we are currently supporting a number of tree planting projects, including those with families in the Kissi highlands. We have also helped the Kamiraya Widow's Women Group (KWWG) plant around 5000 trees for poles and watershed maintenance. | |||||||||
| Over the past year, TREES tried to help develop the Million Moringa Tree Project which will not only empower school kids to take action by planting trees, but it will also help schools produc a massive supply of vitamin rich food supplements to complement school lunches. The project just hasn't picked up much steam yet. | |||||||||
| We are helping Francis old Sakunda and SIMOO in Ngong town, 30 kilometers from Nairobi, to expand their nurseries, and we are looking forward to getting pictures from their 2005 rainy season. | |||||||||
| We at TREES are also excited to report that we are also developing a tree planting partnership with Joseph Maghas, a retired teacher and representative of the Department of Education - we're looking forward to receiving an update on his work. | |||||||||
TREES has also recently begun planting trees with the SMART Initiative in Northwestern Kenya: |
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| "There are two alternative paths for humanity and the environment, and man's actions over the next few years will determine which path is taken. In one future, agricultural landscapes become depleted by an overpopulation of desperate peasant farmers, many of whom are forced to migrate to cities only to discover garbage, crowded slums and squalor. But in the other more optimistic scenario, small holder farmers practice environmentally-responsible, market-oriented agriculture resulting in rural prosperity, clean environment, food and fiber security and protected rainforests." | |||||||||
Jack Wafula, Program Coordinator |
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| Sustainable Mobilization of Agricultural Resource Technologies (SMART Initiative) through its Agroforestry Project, is assisting Kenyans persue the second path, one in which agriculture, livestock and forestry are integrated on the same landscape, thus maintaining natural forests in farmlands, while benefiting from non-wood forest products. | |||||||||
| SMART Initiative is a community based organization working with rural communities in North Western Kenya. Like many tropical countries, Kenya suffers severe land degradation and currently its forest cover stands at only 1.7%. As both human and livestock increase, so does demand for timber, firewood and fodder, perpetuating the cycle of deforestation and degradation. | |||||||||
| Food and cash crop production based on slush and burn agriculture is the dorminant land-use system in the North Rift. The Cherangany hills which is the source of rivers feeding lakes Victoria, Baringo and Turkana is being deforestated at an alarming speed. It is for these reasons that SMART Initiative and other groups seek support from Trees for the Future. |
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