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LEAD Foundation and Justdiggit present ‘Kijanisha’ regreen song

Kijanisha means ‘to make green’ in Swahili, and the song brings the message and promise of the regreening movement straight to the airwaves of Tanzania and beyond. Having seen first-hand the effects of climate change and land degradation in their native Tanzania, Christina Shusho, Joh Makini, Frida Amani and Ben Pol use their combined voices to encourage each and every one of us to join the movement and DIG IN for a greener, cooler world. With their music, the artists are

Demonstrating what was once believed to be the impossible

Local farmers from Luhundwa village demonstrating what was once believed to be the impossible by restoring their marginal land with Kisiki Hai. Together with Ecosia and the local farmers from Luhundwa village in Mpwapwa – Dodoma, we started to restore this land in

Representing Tanzania in the Great Green Wall Initiative

It has been a privilege to attend the African Union/SADC – Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI) Expert Workshop in preparation for the coming United Nations Convection to Combat Desertification UNCCD COP15. The Great Green Wall is an African-led initiative to grow an 8,000 km new ‘World Wonder’ across the continent to combat climate change, halt desertification and change lives.

Growing trees against all odds Neema’s story

Neema has seen first hand how deforestation has affected the environment in her village. Only 30 years ago, when she was a child, her village was surrounded by trees. Today, like much of Tanzania, it’s almost completely deforested. Ever since, and only in one generation, temperatures have risen, soils have dried out, and rainfall has grown scarce. Your searches on Ecosia allow to support LEAD Foundation in Tanzania. Thanks to your searches, Neema is starting to see a difference — and

Awards to best performing villages

Every year we organize a contest to see which villages implement our regreening program to perfection. We recently organized the contest in the 342 villages of our Regreening Dodoma program that is implemented by us and Justdiggit. 24 villages emerged the winners, each winner has been awarded a token worth 1,500,000 Tanzanian shillings for their community development activities. Example, some of the villages have used the token to buy 250+ school desks that will help 750+ students who used to sit on

The cooling effect of trees

This thermal image from our project with Justdiggit clearly shows the temperature difference between the tree, its branches and leaves and surroundings. Trees provide a cooling effect to our environments. Using Kisiki Hai technique, we have regenerated more than 9 million trees in the past four years in central Tanzania, and doing so we have created more cooling

Farmers Field Day

Kilimo Ikolojia kwa Maendeleo Endelevu is a well-known and inspiring slogan by the rural community that implemented agroecological interventions in Kongwa District of Central Tanzania to combat land degradation and improve crop productivity. This slogan was repeated quite often by farmers during a three-day Farmers -Field Day (FFD) program that showcased agro technologies and practices introduced in the eight intervention villages in the region. Some of the interventions were: Establishment of multipurpose tree nursery sites to address land degradation Demonstration of poultry

Harvesting almost all the rainwater in this rain season

Our bunds in Arusha are harvesting almost all the rainwater in this rain season. The half moon bunds help to capture rainwater and prevent it to run off and cause erosion. By harvesting rainwater the water balance in the soil will restore which will increase the water availability for the seeds still present in the soil. The seeds will get a chance to sprout and regreen the area. In some very degraded areas, grass seeds are sown if there aren’t enough

Over 9 million trees restored!

𝟗.𝟏𝟓 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 is the total number of trees we have brought back together with over 𝟏𝟐𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 in Dodoma region of Tanzania who received regreening knowledge from us, champion farmers and our wonderful partner Justdiggit . We have restored these trees in just 4 years using the 𝐊𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐢 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 commonly known as 𝐅𝐌𝐍𝐑. FMNR is a low-cost, sustainable land restoration technique used to combat poverty and hunger amongst poor subsistence farmers in developing countries by increasing food and timber production,

Bringing hope to the community during the dry season

Our regreening projects bring a massive impact to the community and the environment. In Pembamoto village where we run a regreening project with Justdiggit using rainwater harvesting technique, they have not experienced any rain season for almost 9 months. Luckily the regreening project brings them hope, they can now get grass for livestock, roofing materials etc. from the project area. While in some parts of the country, livestock are struggling and dying because of lack of grass due to an unexpected long dry