Climate Action Nigeria Project #17108

Planting Trees and Seeds of Hope in Nigeria

by Bernadette Strebel World Peace

Project Report | Mar 13, 2015
Update on your project in Africa

By Saturday Tobiye | AFIWP Manager

Families of local workers selling the harvest

Appreciation to our donors

All the workers in thanks all our donors in Globalgiving for their support.

In addition here is a status of the project:

The forest is now 100% protected from wild fire

With the support from our donors from GlobalGiving we were able to fire traced the entire 156,000 forest plantation at the commencement of the dry winter season. When a wildfire breakout in an adjoining forest, all our planted trees were 100% protected by the fire trace round the plantation.

Increase in per capital income for the forest workers in the Afro Forestry Sections of the plantation

The Agro forestry practice introduced is improving the standard of living of the forest workers and their families. With the supplementary income from sale of food items harvested between the planted forest trees in the local market and the wages paid to the workers for work done, most of these families are now living on an average of 5 to 7 U. S dollar daily (avergage on the area was 1). On market days, Yam is sold and the cassava harvested is processed into Garri and cassava flour. Apart from the sales of this product, some are also eating at home. This has drastically improve their standard of living.

All workers paid their salaries up to date

Your generous donation couple with our tight budgetary policy, wages of all the workers have been paid and this has enable the farmer pay their children school fees and meet other obligation at home. The Board of AIFWP and ABSWP thanks all the donors of Globalgiving for their kind gesture.

Plans for the future:

We have plans to raise a 2000 Moringa plantation(the Miracle Tree). The area has been demarcated we will be very grateful for any support in this area. When this tree grows, it will add to the nutritional status of some anemic children a common phenomenon in Africa, economic value of the rural people and also to the trees for Peace project. The Area Manager for Moringa Mr. Kenneth Iyen and the workers under his schedule will be grateful for any support in this area. We have been assured of a free donation of 2000 seed of Moringa which we hope to start the nursery when fund are available.

We kindly appeal to support in planting of 2000 moringa in 2015.

Warm regards.

Forest plantation weeded

Project Manager with the Deputy Project Manager

process cassava afro forestry

Workers weeding teak plantation

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Dec 2, 2014
Good news from Africa

By Festus Onogholo | Project Manager AIFWP

Donor's Visit to the Plantation

Dear all, we take this opportunity to give you an update on the project. Some of the latests news:

- Donors Visiting the plantation:

A mayor donator along with a team member of our team have just returned after visiting the Plantation in Nigeria, the past week. They had a chance to actually see the trees maintained by all of you. We received great feedback from them, they were deeply impressed by the project, saying that it was an incredible experience that will strengthen their commitment and support.

- Increase in workforce:

As a result of the generous support received we were able to increase the workforce in the plantation. This is helping to reduce the unemployment rate not only in Ehor area, but in the whole Edo state. Also it is giving opportunities to the youth who are returning to the area. This impact has even been confirmed personally by the local authorities, including the Youth Chairman of Ehor and Irhue Community, Mr. Saturday Ohamen.

- 100% of the worker's children are now in school:

All our staff, including the recently hired workers are all now able to send their children to school.
In Nigeria, lots of Children are still out of school because of poverty and high rate of unemployment in the rural area. With the wages of the workers paid and up to date, they are now can afford their children school fees, buy books and meet other school requirements for the proper education of their children.

On behalf of all the people involved in the project, we want to thank you all for your help.
Without your support, we could not be taking care of the 156,000 trees planted to date. Your donations have kept the project going, paying workers their wages, improving the health of the trees, workers, families and supporting the growing forest.

As this year comes to an end, we are expanding our target in global giving. Your continuous support will help us in keeping the planted trees free from weeds and also support the new plantation in 2015.

You can help by donating in our globalgiving page

Thank you.

Sincerely.

Planted trees weeded out and growing strong

Taking the workers back home...

Workers protecting the new trees from the weeds

Best worker of the day! (Nov 15th, 2014)

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Sep 2, 2014
Trees for Peace Report

By Festus Onogholo | Project Manager in Nigeria

Project manager and teams of his dedecated worker

Thanks to our numerous donors who their donations have help us to continue our Peace trees planting Operations in the Seed of Hope Project Nigeria.

In the last 3 months we have been able to carry out successfully, the maintenance of all the 56,100 planted in 2013 and those planted between 2011 and 2012. In trees planting projects in rainforest zones one of the most difficult operations is weeding (maintenance of the planted Trees). As it rains in the rainy seasons, the weeds grown very fast to compete with the planted tree seedlings. One of the greatest challenge in Trees planting in Africa, when trees are planted they are not maintained and soon or latter 70% of the trees die-off. But between the Months of May and July we were able to weed the 56,000 Trees planted in 2013 and the over 60,000 trees planted in the period of 2011 and 2012. Today the trees are growing very well free from weeds and they are looking very healthy. So on the average we were able to weed a total of 110,000 forest trees plantation in an area of 124 acres of land or 49.6 hectares of forested land at a spacing of 7ft by 7ft.

Within this period we were able to pay the workers some of their money for work done. Over 30 workers representing over 30 families in the village of Irhue ,in Ehor, Uhunwonde Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria benefited . With the money paid, they can conveniently and happily send their children to school when school resume in August/Septembers in the 2014/2015 academic session. One of the vision of the President and Founder of the One Million trees for peace project Bernadette Strebel apart from helping to bring our forest which has been devastated back in Africa, is to empower head of families in each of this villages so that, they could in turn empower members of their families (wife and children) by sending them to school so that they can have a better and brighter future tomorrow.

We were also able to repair our broken down project vehicle which was donated to this project in 2009 by Bernadette Strebel, the President and founder of the One Million Trees for Peace Project. The repair, though expensive is helping us to convey workers daily and do other routine plantation operations.

Lastly, the women in the villages were able to harvest some food crops, Cassava and Yam in the agro-forestry sections. In the forest plantations, rural workers are encouraged to plant arable crops between planted trees. Some of the arable crops planted last year are being harvested and the rural people are getting food to eat.

We take this opportunity to thank you again for your support. And we will be happy to listen to your feedback so we can all grow togeather.

Warm Regards.

Nursery for Trees 2014

Weeding of the 2011 and 2011 plantation

Centre view of 2013 planted meliana

Weeding of the 2011 and 2011 plantation

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Report Sept 2014

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