Reverse Deserts Through Community Transformation
Save Africa forest
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.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $40,000 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By Africa Conservation Trust That You Can Help
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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
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Africa Conservation Trust
P.O.Box 15219 177b,Koitobus Road
Nairobi,
Central Province
509
Kenya
+254 733 621773
http://www.africaconservationtrust.org
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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 November 6, 2009.
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
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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