This project will replace over 10,000 trees which were cut for charcoal, firewood and increase need of construction materials on Kangankundi hill and surrounding river banks. Excessive cutting trees has facilitate floods that washes remaining indigenous trees. Soil is continually eroded causing siltation in rivers. Gullies are caused putting cultivation on gardens as challenge. River Banks cannot hold water anymore as there are no trees to keep up moisture. Rivers and water springs are dry.
Excessive cutting down of trees has facilitated floods that washed away remaining indigenous trees on the hill and river bank. Soil was eroded causing gullies that put cultivation by farmers as a challenge. The river banks can not hold water any more as there are no trees to keep up moisture. Rivers and water springs are drying up. Communities, especially women travel long distances to get water as they depend on wells along dry river bank.
This project will plant and maintain native trees on the hill and river banks. It shall promote appropriate agro-forestry practices among small scale farmers in order to improve their income and food supply, while simultaneously increasing their capacity to adapt to changes in climate through the adoption of improved farming and reafforestation in critical watershed.
This project shall remove 10,000 tons of CO2 from atmosphere. Conserve water. Preserve the natural trees. Create sustainable business for 50 women to produce fertile soil organic fertilizer. Create long term income for more than 600 women producing maize crop, planting and maintaining trees around rivers and streams of their own reforested farms.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
