Project Report
| Mar 7, 2021
Trees Planted Anywhere Helps Everyone
By Shana Greene | Executive Director, Village Volunteers
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While "trees planted anywhere helps everyone" is a statement that seems quite exaggerated, there is simple truth to the statement.
The Moringa Tree Project was created as a sustainable approach to combat poverty, malnutrition and environmental degradation This nutritional rich tree is grown by local people to provide nutrition for their families and communities. Your donations help people in rurual communities plant more trees and bottom line, each one planted helps the environment.
Trees provide oxygen, improve air quality, cools temperature, conserves water, preserves soil, and supports wildlife. Trees lower the air temperature and reduce the heat intensity of the greenhouse effect by maintaining low levels of carbon dioxide. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and removes and stores carbon while releasing the oxygen back into the air. For one year, a mature tree will absorb more than 48 pounds of carbon from the atmosphere and it releases oxygen in exchange.
This project is close to out heart because donations go to planting trees that provide powerful nutrition and that is a sustainable solution to a community challenge.
Thank you for your past donation. We hope you will consider a small monthly stipend perhaps monthly to help maintain the tree planting movement.
Thank you!.
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Nov 9, 2020
Nutrition is Key for Hunger
By Shana Greene | Executive Director
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Thank you for supporting the Moringa Tree Project in the past. It’s been a program that has had its ups and downs. It all depends on climate and farmers as to the success of the moringa tree. Relatively drought resistant, we have had long stretches of draught that took its toll. This is life in programs that planted nurseries without irrigation. We recognize the ebb and flow but support the flow as we are able.
All and all, the moringa trees maintaining and proving that nutrition is key for hunger. The importance of our immune systems and a balanced diet during a pandemic cannot be stressed too much.
The staple in diets is corn. A child may only eat corn porridge morning noon and night. Their diet is sorely lacking in protein which is key for growth and development. Moringa has all the amino acids needed for growth and it can be grown as a crop because it is just the leaves that are used. The seeds and pods are used but if a tree goes to seed, it impacts the leaf growth.
Again, thanks for your help in planting more trees and providing nutrition Even if you can only donate $10 a month, we will be certain to use your donation for the most vulnerable communities who have embraced the miracle moringa tree.
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Jul 13, 2020
Hunger in the time of Covid19
By Shana Greene | Executive Director, Village Volunteers
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Dear donors and supporters,
This is the last day to report and I'm at a loss. The pandemic has been brutal in the regions that we work in but we are particularly focused on areas of hunger and malnutrition in Kenya. We have been wiring funds from donations to buy powdered moringa from the communities that have been successful in growing trees and powdering the leaves to sell.
The recipients from donations will be mostly for families who are dealing with food insecurity. During this pandemic, its been catastrophic ln rural areas who live a subsistent life. While we have been focused on sustainability and creating income through agriculture that provides optimum nutrition, Kenya has stopped congregating and merchants are unable to sell their wares. Today, the need is difficult to describe because the reports I get are filled with grave concern for the near future to deal with the growing hunger crisis.
As we all go through this pandemic around the world, we are glad to see Kenya take wearing of masks seriously. We are watching closely and wish our partners strength and resolve to do whats necessary to end this cruel pandemic.
Thank you for your donations and particularly those who are subscribers. Even a small amount adds up.
Stay Safe!
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