MAASAI COMMUNITY CARBON TREES AFRICA

We are super proud of our community leader in Kenya project who has been invited to teach at a university in Nairobi concerning what he has been learnng and putting into practice about silvo pastoral grazing. Mixing the trees weith the goats and cows has been challenging in numerous ways and many of them do die due to drought and stomping damage. Nevertheless, Dalmas remains commited and continues to help us empower the community to care for the baby trees and also replace them when they die within the first 4 years. 

It is dry season for now and we await more updated fotos of tree growth and fotos of the nursery as we continue to produce compost and trees with the womern and youth of the community. We are also exploring replicating to a new community with additional leadership on the ground to help support everyone in the community to conitiue with fair pay tree planting and long term follow up. We look forward to contued work especially as we expand into new communities and create fundraising opportunities with future eco tourism. Oncve the rains start in April 2025, we will beging to review all trees and perform any necessary maintainance for continued growth. 

We are excited to continue looking towards our Massai community in Kenya in preparation for future retreats with eco tourists  in furtherance of  expansion of our tree planting efforts. So amny people have expre3ssed interest to share our hands on experience in Kenya. And all of a sudden, it appears that a team of committed people are aligning to provide just such an opportunity. We are welcoming Fateh to our community whoi will be leading these retreats with my participation and assistance. Fateh is an experienced retreat leader and world traveller and with her taking on the logistics of the participants, its attractive to organize a group.

In this regard, we will begin establishing a new realtionship woth two otjer tree planting groups in Kenya to donate more support money and do more tree planting. Our current leader Dalmas has been offered a teaching position at the University in Nairobi which we believe is a great sign of the positive impact we have made with Dalmas and the existing collaboration in Enkutoto Nahalala. Thus, we are sharing the benefits of pastoral silvo grazing or rotational grazing mixed with multi species reforestation. We are on contact with Dalmas and look forward to his recommendations for new leadership. We will make an exploratory journey with a small group as we continue to follow the trees we have planted with the Massai community and expand to other communities.  We are so proud of Dalmas and his growth and we consider it a blessing to have someone like him on our team who is so respected and committed to further ongoing work throughout the Massai land together. And of course, it is so important to train and work with the younger generations who will continue to plant and maintain the treesas  we move forward together and design our planting projects for 2025.

Stay tuned. Meanwhile, Dalmas and the community continue to work in the nursery and care of the over 3000 trees we have planted so far. 

Thank you for your kind support…