MAASAI COMMUNITY CARBON TREES AFRICA Transporting Diverse Trees to Planting Sites Anteater Living in 3 yr Ceiba Tree Planted by ACCT Well Managed Diverse 3.5 year old Trees

Community Carbon Trees- Costa RIca

Org #11586
Vetted since 2013 Site Visit Verified
2009
year founded
$497,480
raised on GlobalGiving
11
years fundraising
1
projects funded
* Amounts in US Dollars

Mission

We create seed collection networks within rural communities and capacitate families including women and children to produce the tree saplings. We use sponsorship money to buy the saplings, transport them to participating family farm owned by a Costa Rican family. We pay workers to plant the trees and build protective fences. For 4 years afterwards, we return to chop grasses and maintain the trees until they reach safe height for survival. We return to each family farm once a year and prescribed times, we allow the family to harvest some lumber through the thinning process. The family can collect all fruits. Our plantings are highly diverse native species. We also engage in regular edu... read more

Project Leaders
Jennifer Smith
Jennifer Smith
HEATHER KLINE
HEATHER KLINE
Team
Jennifer Smith, Casimiro Vargas, Cristian Mena, Erica Largen, Milady Fallas, Barbara Daitch, Dalmas Tiampati, Elena Vargas, Elpidio Cascante, Estela Garbanzo Cisneros, Dunia Cascante, Liver Chinchilla Valverde, Dona Chinchilla Valverde, Jose Angel Pereira Benavides, Amy Shrift, Melissa Goldenberg, Joseph Trevino, Nathan Hirschaut, Summer Nelson, Rhea Cortado, Carlos Cerdas Gambioa, Jann Grimm, Bart en Kate
Organization Information
80 meters southwest Platanillo School Platanillo de Perez Zeledon Costa Rica
Platanillo, Perez Zeledon 8000
Costa Rica
001 506 83453309
Organization Information
80 meters southwest Platanillo School Platanillo de Perez Zeledon Costa Rica
Platanillo, Perez Zeledon 8000
Costa Rica
001 506 83453309

Project Reports

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Planting season in FULL SWING

By Jennifer Leigh Smith | Project Leader

Our crews are siwnging machetes and digging holes like professionals that they are this planting sezason 2025. Thes fellas keep blowing my mind to see how they work so fast and expertly both planting... Read the full report ›

Expansion with new groups in Kenya

By Jennifer Leigh Smith | Project Leader

We are thrilled to announce that we are exploring a collaboration with a new group of tree planters in Kenya presented top us by our leader Dalmas.  We would like to combine our humble efforts... Read the full report ›

Rains in Kenya

By Jennifer Smith | Project Leader

We are super proud of our community leader in Kenya project who has been invited to teach at a university in Nairobi concerning what he has been learnng and putting into practice about silvo pastoral... Read the full report ›
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