1 - 2 Million Trees a Year in Uganda's Countryside

Organic Perspectives would like to thank our donors for last Winter’s Global Open Challenge.

While we fell short of the funding goal for our Project “1 – 2 Million Trees a Year in Uganda’s Countryside”, the $625 we raised shall more than twofold enable us to keep within our “$1 for 20 trees goal”. We are looking forward to planting at least 50,000 trees this planting season with only that support we raised during the Challenge. Read on to learn how we are poised to do this.

We recently partnered with another nonprofit (UpEnergyGroup.com) on the distribution of Improved Firewood Cookstoves in our region and, in our “Sales and Marketing Plan” for the cookstoves, we are setting up one local “Project Extension Group” (PEG) for each Parish—as a social marketing approach (just as earlier planned in the ‘Project Extension Framework’ for our tree project).

We are assigning each PEG two tasks:

1.      Establishing and managing a Parish-level community tree nursery; orientating folks on agroforestry and asking them to sign up to receive at least 100 seedlings each (per season), in turn for paying the PEGs a small nursery maintenance fee of UGX3000 ($1) per season—while our team provides free seed and agroforestry training to the PEG leaders. This will kinda ensure a sustainable project flow.

2.      Selling our improved wood stoves in turn for a commission of UGX3,000 per stove sold, and promoting our household biogas work in turn for a UGX10,000 commission (from the UDBP) for each digester installed through the PEGs’ dissemination of information about our biogas project.

The attached project has not primarily been written about developments on the tree project, but, the underlying sales and marketing plan for our integral Improved Cookstoves Project in the same region presents a good overview of the unfolding organizational plan for our “three-pronged project approach”—integrating agroforestry, energy efficiency/waste-to-energy and organic gardening—which shall wholly be locally extended by our PEGs.  

As in the document, we have so far set up 31 PEGs; two of them are presently ready to go with community nurseries and we anticipate a minimum capacity of 25,000 trees per nursery per season.

Our tree project is taking place again in the forthcoming April 2012 Global Open Challenge on the link: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/one-two-million-trees-a-year-in-uganda

Hope you would please support us again, and remember the goal to stay on globalgiving is at least $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors during the Challenge’s 4-week duration.

Thanks,

Anthony,

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Anthony Kalulu

Founder/Patron

Organic Perspectives

P.O Box 16

Kamuli,

Uganda.

Tel: +256-782-601073

Web: http://www.gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectives

• Project_Idea_Note__Clean_Cookstoves_Project_Organic_Persp.pdf (PDF)