Communities in Kenya will get fast-growing trees to produce their own energy, and reduce destruction of Kenya's forest.

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Reverse Deserts Through Community Transformation

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Summary

Rural Kenya and many urban dwellers rely on charcoal and firewood for energy, which is destroying Kenya's forests. We provide fast-growing trees as alternative sources of fuel and food for livestock. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $40,000 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Three thousand trees are cut down each day to supply charcoal to Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. A large portion of this fuel requirement is coming from the Lake Magadi area of southern Kenya. This project provides an alternative source of trees to supply charcoal and firewood to the people in the target area and to Nairobi. The communities will be supplied the trees and taught how to grow them and process biomass into charcoal.

Activities

Set up a nursery; supply fast-growing nitrogen fixing trees; train the community how to cultivate, harvest and process the biomass into high-grade charcoal for sale and for use as home-grown fodder to stop overgrazing.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $40,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $40,000. The original project funding goal was $40,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Helping communities produce their own energy, with a surplus for sale, boosting income to poor rural families, and improving their lives. One project integrates large-scale conservation, job generation and wealth creation.

Project Message

"This is exactly what we need now." (Referring to the provision of trees for energy and fodder)
- Peter Ole Simel, Maasai Tribe Elder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Adam Tuller,
Chief Executive Officer
P.O.Box 15219
177b,Bogani Road
Nairobi, Central Province 00509
Kenya
(+254 –20) 89 03 61
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Africa Conservation Trust
P.O.Box 15219
177b,Koitobus Road
Nairobi, Central Province 00509
Kenya
+254 733 621773
http://www.africaconservationtrust.org

Learn more about Africa Conservation Trust and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green).

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 22, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 16, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

FULLY FUNDED, BUT MORE WORK TO DO

By Stacy Harris - Program Manager, October 22, 2008 05:51 PM

Thank you for supporting our community development and reforestation program in Kenya. This project has been fully funded which has enabled us to establish a base nursery camp with an electric fence to keep the lions, leopards and especially the elephants away from our seedlings.

5,000 trees have been planted out with the goal of planting over 100,000 trees in the upcoming year. With your continued support we expect to combat global warming by continuing to reforest the desertified areas of Kenya. By introducing clean air technology and new innovative ideas, Africa Conservation Trust and the Masai community, with your help, can contine to help mitigate climate change by reforesting Kenya.

We hope you are able to continue supporting our other projects which are inclusive of women, children, medical facilites and clean air technologies. The one thing Africa has is land and if the land is used properly everyone, even in America, will benefit.

Thanks again for your contributions you have helped changed the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in Africa.
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