By Laura Striegel | Project Leader
Dear supporters,
Mali is a beautiful country and the surroundings of our project in Kayes are just amazing. However, life has never been easy for the Malian people living in an aride region of leafless trees, mud huts and roaming gunmen. Moreover, the average rainfall has dropped by 30 percent since 1998 with droughts becoming longer and more frequent, according to a 2013 study by the U.S. army’s Strategic Studies Institute. Meanwhile, the Sahara desert is expanding southward at a rate of 48 kms a year, forcing whole communities to migrate and pushing them on to land occupied by other groups, researchers said in a 2011 study.
Thats why Biopal has started, thanks to your donations, a new project: planting trees. We want to enhance awareness, ensure a healthy environment for this and the next generation and enable beter harvest.
We started planting the first 500 trees, while the hottest season is going on. But its working! They survived and the first lessons are starting aswell. We will keep on planting and we hope you keep on surporting us!
Thanks!
Laura
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