Establishing a Reforestation Institute providing knowledge and technical skills for 5000 villagers in SW Madagascar to restore threatened native forests, grow fuel wood, food and medicinal plants.
The majority of rural people in southwest Madagascar derive income by producing charcoal from the highly threatened native forest. Widespread deforestation has resulted in drought, famine and poverty. The Reforestation Institute will provide people with knowledge to improve crop yields, as well as job opportunities to grow trees that produce biofuel, food and medicine; ultimately to conserve one of the worlds most unique forests. “Planting trees will bring back the rains and improve our future".
The Reforestation Institute will have a native tree nursery and reforestation site, reach 5000 people, replant 100ha of forest with 100,000 trees, improve income sources and yields by 50%, give 1000 people new jobs. "We are ready to plant trees".
Reducing deforestation by providing diverse education, employment and livelihood opportunities; reaching 5000 people over two years. Improving access to food and water. Community management of extensive protected areas and discovery of new species.
"We have the best community run plant nursery and forest sanctuary in Madagascar; sky is the limit for expanding the project now!"
- Martin Relory, Malagasy community association member/coordinator
Total Funding Received to Date: $970
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 "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $970 . The original project funding goal was $20,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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