Leaves For livelihoods
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Donate today to grow a greener, healthier future for communities in Africa's drylands.
Tree Aid provides communities with the tools and training they need to restore their land, improve diets, and earn a sustainable income from trees.
Your support could help us to expand our work across the Sahel region, growing incomes through sustainable tree businesses and supporting thriving, healthy communities.
From this work, we can see that our future is assured. We know that the young generation, our beautiful daughters, are following in our footsteps
Roots to Market
We support entrepreneurs to grow and sell tree products from seed to sale, providing the tools and training to help sustainable community businesses really take off.
Building on people's existing skills and knowledge, local Tree Aid staff work with co-operative business groups. From tree care and product processing, to business planning and marketing, Tree Aid provides training for every stage of a tree product's journey.
We work with communities to plant and grow trees which are most useful to the people who live there. Sustainable tree products, like seeds, nuts, fruits and leaves, can be used as a source of income, and sold at local markets.
Since we have known Tree Aid, a lot of things have improved in the village. We manage the plants to feed our families, and sell fruit and powders from tree products to earn an income and help our children at school.
Women in Business
For women living in poverty, it can be hard to access the tools and training required for their business ideas to really fly.
Tree Aid projects connect with local women's enterprise groups, finding out how best we can support their existing work to make running their tree product businesses a little easier.
This might mean distributing machinery, which can save time and energy on product processing (like turning shea nuts into shea butter), or providing warehouses for storage of products throughout the year.
Growing Greener Futures
Your donation could...
- …help communities grow their knowledge of nutrition gardens
- …bring communities together around nutritious super trees like baobab and moringa
- … allow communities to have more access to diverse nutritious food
- … help communities have the tools and training to plant trees that will restore soil fertility
- ...remove barriers that prevent women’s access to the natural resources they depend on
- … help Tree Aid to scale up our proven methods to tackle food poverty in a way that will sustain generations
Leaves Mean Life
People in the drylands of Africa are being hit hardest by the effects of the climate crisis. For people living here like Doli and her family, weather patterns are becoming more erratic and droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and severe.
Finding joined-up climate solutions which address diet-related ill health, land degradation and poverty is vital. Join us as we work with local communities to grow nutritious food and incomes, training people to plant, grow, process and sell sustainable tree products.
