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In our campaign to save Nyando River, we're looking at a Streambank Stewardship program where each family who's land is touching the river is given tree seedlings to plant along the banks and after three years, they are given beehives to create apearies along the river to act as a source of income and to guard the trees from further cutting by firewood sellers and charcoal burners. We already started working with an institution that is committed to about 200,000 tree seedlings per year and this will lead us to 1 million trees in five years. Our target is 1.8 million trees in 3 years. We also need logistical support to transport distribute and monitor the success of these trees atleast for a period of 3 years. A total operations and logistics budget Will be US$0.50 per tree, meaning we're looking for US$900,000. We're making progress and it's a commendable one. So far we've a commitment of 200,000 seedlings per year. But we need more help with logistics and ensuring that each tree survives beyond planting. This is where we come back to you. How can you help? There are several ways to contribute 1. You can mobilize your company to raise more tree seedlings commitment so that we can reach 1.8 million trees sooner. 2. You can also mobilize your company to help us raise the funds needed for logistics and after planting care of US$0.50 per seedling which is a total of US$900,000 for 1.8 million trees. 3. You can click on the link below and agree with us to add your voice to this campaign. 4. You can also share with your friends and family network, they could know someone willing to help. 5. You can do a combination of all the above actions. Reach out to us through farmhubafrika@gmail.com
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We run a relatively new social enterprise called Fairways Green Markets Limited in Kenya whose vision is to connect farmers to consumer markets and help bridge the poverty gap among smallholder farmer communities through Sustainable and Organic farming. Our focus location has been western region with our station being at Ahero, Boya in Kisumu county. In our efforts to support farmers we realised that farmers struggle to find water due to the dwindling water levels of the rivers and with the biggest river in the region being Nyando, the river banks have suffered soil erosion as a result of reduced tree cover. Most trees have gone down the drain because of charcoal burning and firewood. Some of the farmers in their effort to preserve soil around their own land have ended up planting water consuming trees like eucalyptus which is more detrimental to the water as it is to crops since eucalyptus does not support agroforestry. Therefore our activities to support farmers may not be successful if this situation is not corrected as soon as possible. I believe it is our role as a social enterprise to fill this gap and coordinate efforts with other like minded individuals and organizations to correct the mess going on before we completely lose our rivers and soil with it. It is in the light of this that am seeking for a donation of 1.8 million tree seedlings to plant along River Nyando in Kisumu county. These seedlings will be distributed to farmers with farms along the river starting from Muhoroni-Chemelil all the way to Ahero. To ensure that these trees survive, we are giving the community an incentive that after every 5-10 year cycle, they will earn carbon credits on their farms. These carbon credits are going to be calculated and awarded on an annual basis but we will create a fund together with CPF and our carbon credit partners ConserWater to save the money to be distributed to the farmers after the period. This will ensure that all trees are taken care of and are allowed to grow to maturity. We will also train the community on alternative fuel sources like bio gas, briquet etc that can be made through sugarcane, rice and maize stock biomass wastes that are normally left to rot in the farms. Some of the trees species that support agro-forestry and are not heavy water consumers we are looking for include: Grevillea robusta Sesbania sesban Croton megalocarpus (Mukinduri) Markhamia lutea (Zusiala) Markhamia lutea (Siala) Calliandra calothyrsus Gliricidia sepium (Mother of cocoa) Leucaena leucocephala (Lusina) Prosopis chilensis (Algaroba) Melia volkensii (Mkau) Tamarindus indica (Mkwaju) I do believe that we can make a great impact in the lives of our farmers even as we protect our environment and natural resources. Just to confirm that we are working closely with a community organization known as St. Barnabas Community Development Center which has about 300 families of smallholder farmers and Green Zone Agencies which has over 1200 smallholder farmers and through these networks sustainability of the trees can be guaranteed plus our carbon Credits program that can be locked for a number of years to act as incentive for keeping the trees. We intend to tie these to carbon credits so that they are encouraged to keep the trees for at least 20 years without cutting them down for charcoal etc. In order to do this, we will need to establish a joint carbon fund with our partners where annual carbon credit awards are kept for five years and only released after every five years. This will ensure that: 1) farmers take care of their trees and ensure maturity 2) carbon credit cash accumulate to a substantial amount which can be used for bigger projects to uplift a family's fortune and move them out of poverty. 3) The cash payout will be significant enough in order to influence behavior change in other members of the community to embrace tree planting and eventually we will have played a major role in conserving the environment for the future generations. A project to plant trees and raise tree seedlings through nurseries is starting with partnerships from well meaning and visionary organizations in Boya, Chemelil and Rabuor areas to enable efficient delivery of seedlings to communities and schools along the rivers feeding Nyando river which is the only source of Lake Victoria, the largest fresh water lake in the region. We believe that through the Total Kenya Eco Challenge and other like minded partnerships, we will be able to achieve and exceed this goal. Together one step at a time we can change the world for greener better place even as we start bigger and better after Covid-19. Thanks and kind regards, Hesborn Ongudi Founder and CEO Organic Farmers Integrated Agribusiness Hub for Africa Fairways Green Markets Limited MOBILE:+254 735-402 744 or +254 777-402 744
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Wonderful work, especially to see it in my motherland
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Nice to read something from our country. Keep it up!
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Good work
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In the next five years every birthday will be a tree planting day for each child in every participating schools. That's approximately 20,000 trees per school per year. We look forward to working with 20 schools in the region and at least 1000 families living along the riverbanks from Muhoroni to Rabuor touching the lake. That's why more than ever we need your help with this campaign.