What is the Eco-Tree Project?
The Eco-Tree Project is currently being implemented in the Biharamulo district of Tanzania. The aim of this project is to help youth experience a sense of agency and relevance in supporting communities to restore and maintain forest quality. We do this through tree planting, restoration of degraded areas and environmental awareness campaigns. To achieve sustainable results, school children and community members participate actively in these environmental conservation activities. As well as serving to protect the environment, the project improves life quality through increased shade, better soil fertility, less soil erosion and protection against strong winds. The project also provides forest resources like fruits, fodder leaves, post and building materials.
EEDS organization organizes young people from underrepresented communities, provide training and tree seedlings to set up community tree farms. Together with youth, EEDS provides full support to ensure that the trees mature and grow healthily. The young people sign an agreement that once harvested, the funds accrued from selling trees are given to their families. This provides time for young people from underrepresented communities to concentrate on their studies, reduces incidences of child labour, and provides additional income for their family - thereby contributing to ending poverty within the society.
Why Eco-Tree Project?
Communities and young students face many challenges around the acquisition of knowledge about environmental conservation and mitigation of climate change. Our project harmonizes the situation to make a sustained and positive impact on environmental conservation - towards a vision of a green and clean environment protected by all. We aim to raise awareness to stop deforestation and illegal bush fires which are commonplace in the Biharamulo district of Tanzania. Additionally, the project works to equip, empower and strengthen the community and young students to play a role in decision-making on the management of the forest areas which they plant.
This project also provides the local community with alternative income sources, to reduce their dependence on selling charcoal for income. EEDS is distributing fruit trees which community members can plant on their own land. These provide income when the produce is sold, thus providing them with extra income and a resultant improvement in their standard of living. This will certainly contribute to the reduction of pressure on the current forests - which face deforestation as local residents cut down trees to sell. Overall, the Eco-Tree project contributes to poverty alleviation as well as biodiversity conservation.
The Eco-Tree Project is currently being implemented in the Biharamulo district of Tanzania. The aim of this project is to help youth experience a sense of agency and relevance in supporting communities to restore and maintain forest quality. We do this through tree planting, restoration of degraded areas and environmental awareness campaigns. To achieve sustainable results, school children and community members participate actively in these environmental conservation activities. As well as serving to protect the environment, the project improves life quality through increased shade, better soil fertility, less soil erosion and protection against strong winds. The project also provides forest resources like fruits, fodder leaves, post and building materials.
EEDS organization organizes young people from underrepresented communities, provide training and tree seedlings to set up community tree farms. Together with youth, EEDS provides full support to ensure that the trees mature and grow healthily. The young people sign an agreement that once harvested, the funds accrued from selling trees are given to their families. This provides time for young people from underrepresented communities to concentrate on their studies, reduces incidences of child labour, and provides additional income for their family - thereby contributing to ending poverty within the society.
Why Eco-Tree Project?
Communities and young students face many challenges around the acquisition of knowledge about environmental conservation and mitigation of climate change. Our project harmonizes the situation to make a sustained and positive impact on environmental conservation - towards a vision of a green and clean environment protected by all. We aim to raise awareness to stop deforestation and illegal bush fires which are commonplace in the Biharamulo district of Tanzania. Additionally, the project works to equip, empower and strengthen the community and young students to play a role in decision-making on the management of the forest areas which they plant.
This project also provides the local community with alternative income sources, to reduce their dependence on selling charcoal for income. EEDS is distributing fruit trees which community members can plant on their own land. These provide income when the produce is sold, thus providing them with extra income and a resultant improvement in their standard of living. This will certainly contribute to the reduction of pressure on the current forests - which face deforestation as local residents cut down trees to sell. Overall, the Eco-Tree project contributes to poverty alleviation as well as biodiversity conservation.
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