Help Plant 533 Families out of Poverty in Uganda

Dear friend,

Trees for the Future is  busy working on planting trees with our Ugandan farmers. We wanted to share the story of one farmer, Afiya*, who has made a great effort to make her life better through planting trees.

Afiya is a widow who looks after 9 of her 20 grandchildren. Three of her sons were captured during the insurgency of the Lord’s Resistance Army in the early 2000s and she took in their small children. With such a large family, Afiya has a lot of mouths to feed. In addition to her struggles, two her daughters died of AIDS-related diseases and left behind several children that have also been raised by Afiya and their older cousins.

In 2017, with the income she could generate from growing trees and vegetables next year, Afiya hopes to buy new school uniforms and shoes for her grandchildren. On her three acres of land, she has planted a Forest Garden on one acre. This small but productive Forest Garden increases her number of valuable crops from an average of three to an average of 12. These crops include fast-growing trees, fruit trees, and many nutritious vegetables to help feed her growing family and create a more food secure future.

With your support, Afiya is earning more income and creating a more sustainable and propsperous future for her large family. Through your donations to this project, her life and the lives of her children are better.

We can't thank you enough for your help of this family and many others like it!

Sincerely,

Trees for the Future

*Name of actual participant changed in this report 

Links:

• Check out trees.org to see more about our work!