Video: "A Convenient Truth"
WEALTH CREATION THROUGH CONSERVATION
     
CLIMATE CHANGE
East African forests are in rapid decline.
The forest cover has dropped from 11% - 1.2% in just 40 years due to the fact that charcoal and firewood are the only source of fuel for most of the people. It has become a major environmental disaster that is growing in magnitude everyday. To give you an idea of the scale of the problem, 5000 trees are cut down everyday to supply the charcoal demands of Nairobi alone.
GOALS
  • Prevent avoidable deforestation in Kenya through community development
  • Reforest desertified land and improve its ecological conditions
  • Invest in social and economic infrastructure of the surrounding poor communities
  • Raise the income families by promoting small scale fuel/hard wood production
  • Improve conditions of African women and children throgh edcucation and training
  • Protect wildlife and endangered species in Kenya
 
To raise Kenya’s forest cover by 10 %, we need to plant 2.88 billion trees, an even more difficult figure to comprehend in terms of capital requirements and logistics to achieve
Enroaching desertification
Rising poverty levels
Scarcity of water
Inadequate facilities
Opportunities for women
Child Support
 
ACT has a simple solution whereas, rural farmers plant a specific number of trees every year for 3 years. This avoids the cut down of indigenous forest
Plant fast growing tress
Busines Opportunities
Access to clean water
Food/energy security
Training in conservation
Improve healthcare
 
The Lake Magadi area is approximately 80 km southwest of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. This area is home to the pastoralist Masai tribe.
30,000 trees planted
100,000 trees in nursury
2500 children involved
3800 Maasai benefiting
30 rural farmers trained
8 Maasai women trained