Villagers are making the earth better across Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mali. Tree Aid’s planting and protection projects restore fertility to the land and help crops flourish. Trees provide nourishment for mothers, babies and children if crops fail, improve their diet throughout the year, and provide a lasting source of income for African families that helps send children to school and pays for their healthcare. Protected forests are more valuable to villagers when they are left standing, and increasing tree cover stops villages being swallowed by the desert.
When communities rely on the environment to meet their every basic need, they are vulnerable. When the environment is damaged, people’s lives are damaged too. This link between people and the environment is fragile and inseparable. Rural families understand they have the power to transform their lives. And it often starts with just one seed.
Planting and protecting trees is within everyone’s reach, even the very poorest on the planet. For them, trees are an investment in a better life. Tree Aid has planted over 7 million trees, and protected many millions more, helping more than 450,000 villagers to transform bleak, baking soil back into productive, shady and resilient land.
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Planting and protection
Winnowing wheat, Ethiopia © Mark Edwards/Still Pictures
Harvesting millet, Ethiopia © Mark Edwards/Still Pictures
