By Jane Segleau | Project leader
Hello and ASIREA wishes you the best for this new year 2020!
This year we continue to promote reforestation with local families. Last year 25,864 trees were planted in small farms plus 35,000 planted by private companies, which is over 100 hectareas of trees! We continue to offer assistance when the trees achieve comercial volume so that farmers can continue to plant and harvest wood from sustainable plantations. It is important to remember that wood is carbon that trees have captured from the atmosphere, so the more planting we can do, we can capture more CO2. This also has to benefit the tree planters, and, the whole value chain from planting to marketing must be organized, to assure that each collaborator earns enough to cover costs and earn income for his/her family. We dream of seeing our wood in furniture, in homes, and useful products.
Last year we also gained more experience in wood marketing and have learned that the best way to move forward is by producing for clients that are commited to buying wood from our association. This year's plan is also to innovate by marketing finished products on internet- as a trial- because we continue to compete with cheap plastic, and imports- and still are trying to find the best marketing options for local wood. The conflict between local ecological production and non-sustainable products sold by big businesses can be seen world wide. In this context, consumers have the power to change the world when they prefer sustainably produced products.
Baseline, this means we still are depending on the opportunity to dry our wood, to be able to develop new products. As you see, thanks to our donors, we have saved up 5,476 dollars, and our goal is $22,800, which is the cost of a solar dryer. Please continue to donate whatever you can, and share this idea with your friends and families. We think this is a project that has the potential to be a game changer for local families who do reforestation. The path is not easy, but we will not give up!
Thank you so much!
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