Project Report
| May 22, 2013
Planting Moringa Trees is a Win Win Win
By Shana Greene | Executive Director
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Children at Circle of Hope in Kunya Village
Thank you to all of you who have donated in the past and particularly to those who have a monthly subscription. The monthly funds keep the youth group planting trees and more money goes into their scholarship fund for the youth to attend school.
Today we are doing a training for a women's group to start their own orchard. Once the trees are mature in less than a year and a half, we will fund an oil press so they can make high quality oil for use and to sell.
Planting trees, providing scholarship funds and granting women's groups with an income producing project is a win win win.
Thank you!
Shana
Shana Greene
Executive Director
Village Volunteers
5100 S. Dawson St. Suite 202
Seattle, WA 98118
206-577-0515
http://www.villagevolunteers.org
http://www.facebook.com/VillageVolunteers
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Taking trees home for their family use
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Women's group training
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moringa tree seeds
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Moringa tree growing!
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moringa tree nursery with children
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Mar 7, 2013
Celebrating Success with the Moringa Tree Project
By Shana Greene | Executive Director, Village Volunteers
Dear Donor,
We are happy to report that our Moringa Tree Project is doing well and the trees that are planted are thriving. In the beginning, we had challenges with downpours washing the seedlings away, animals munching on them, and drought taking its toll on the tender seedlings.
Now that we are beyond that fragile stage, we are encouraged and excited for everyone involved. Our trainer Dickson Omandi loves children and inspires them with his enthusiasm for all aspects of sustainable farming methods. He teaches them about the moringa tree uses, encourages them all to take the trees home for their families and distributes more moringa seeds to plant.
We apprecaite your ongoing support and following our project. Those of you who are contributing each month through a subscription, you are helping immensely as the children are able to continue to plant trees and your generosity supports their school tuition through the moringa scholarship fund.
Thank you!
Shana
Shana Greene
Executive Director
Village Volunteers
5100 S. Dawson St. Suite 202
Seattle, WA 98118
206-577-0515
http://www.villagevolunteers.org
http://www.facebook.com/VillageVolunteers
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Dec 5, 2012
A New Tree Nursery and Project!
By Shana Greene | Executive Director of Village Volunteers
We are happy to report that the moringa project is expanding in Kunya Village. Dickson Omandi from Trees for the Future will be facilitating more workshops with the students and community members starting Tuesday, December 11th. Dickson has joined us in helping to troubleshoot and to create a more diverse tree nursery project by adding fruit and fodder trees to the moringa tree nuseries.
While we have had some loss with animals browsing on trees.in our Maasai partner community, the trees are planted at the school and the Maasai warrier guards will now be on the lookout.
We are excited to see how happy communities are in embracing a project that is so helpful.
Thank you for your support!.
Shana
Shana Greene
Executive Director
Village Volunteers
5100 S. Dawson St. Suite 202
Seattle, WA 98118
206-577-0515
http://www.villagevolunteers.org
http://www.facebook.com/VillageVolunteers
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