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It is way beyond fighting against climate change

LEAD Foundation and Justdiggit (Netherlands) started a beautiful program together as an answer to local and global climate changes. This is done through the training of local farmers in various landscape restoration techniques. One of them is FMNR (Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration). This is an amazing and costless method where tree stumps are pruned and protected to enable them to regrow again into a mature tree. Another one is digging big waterbunds in the earth, so that water has a better

Pruning Season

The farmers in Dodoma region have already managed to bring back 3.3 Million trees with the help of Kisiki Hai Method. It is now the rain season, this is also the pruning season for the farmers in Dodoma. After the Kisiki Hai roadshow and training from our champion farmers we are really happy to see many more farmers have accepted the knowledge and now they are busy pruning living tree stumps in their farms. By cutting away most of the stems

An exchange visit for the Champion Farmers

Last week was a great experience and fun. We had a Kisiki Hai exchange visit with a main objective of connecting best performing Champion farmers and farmers from all districts in Dodoma , sharing experiences, discussing questions, ideas or challenges that they face during their work. As part of the exchange visit, we visited different sites that are been conserved through our re-greening techniques and also visited the famous water springs in Kondoa District! A visit to Kondoa hot springs They

The regreen revolution takes a new level

In the next one year, together with our regreening partners Justdiggit we will be engaging 100,000 farmers through bulk SMS. From now every week for a period of one year farmers will receive messages on how to regreen their farms, prevent soil erosion, add soil fertility, get more rain in the future etc through FMNR regreening technique. To subscribe to this service please send KISIKI to 15320. A great way to upscale and activate farmers, this way of short text messages is a

Just like jungle fire II

Remember Mr. cialis générique danger Mkunduge! That enthusiastic old man who traveled for about 200 km from Gairo, Morogoro region to Dodoma just to get this. See how amazing this rouse out to be for him and his village. After he attended a 5 days FMNR ToT session, and became a champion in his village. He strongly managed to pass knowledge to all villagers. As he spoke he said “Kibedya village has about 20 thousand people in it and we all

The Raindance global movement starts here

The Raindance Project kicked off with the first amazing concert, where three countries joined in the dance for a greener planet in which Musicians, DJ’s, dancers, scientists, and speakers all on stages in Kenya, Tanzania and The Netherlands. This project rocked, sharing knowledge with a live connection within these three countries for a positive climate change. We dance, celebrate and move together through rhythm. Our global journey starts here with many more to come. The Raindance project 2020-2030 Yes yes! Get

New re-greening revolution campaign

We are very happy and proud of our second re-greening campaign in cooperation with Justdiggit and in support of JCDecaux global, Havas leimz and Havas Africa. Our campaign is visible in many parts of the country. FMNR the simplest and low cost way to conserve the environment. Together we can bring back nature.

Restoring nature in Chenene

In collaboration with Bahi District council together with Tanzania Services Forests (TFS) Agency, we join forces through the use of FMNR technique to protect sources of water found Dodoma region, Tanzania. To this, in our movement to restoring nature, on freedom torch race 2019 we started by conserving Chenene forest which is a very significant source of water in Bahi district. We all live water, we breathe water let’s not face food shortage nor lose our sources of income and most

Dancing for a greener planet

Music unites, inspires and brings people together, since there is no movement without rhythm. The Justdiggit Foundation introduces The Raindance Project where LEAD Foundation will be the main organizers in Tanzania. With simultaneous biennial events, the project will showcase the potential of landscape restoration to the world. We believe that music can play a vital role in spreading the message about re-greening the world. With this in mind on the September 14th of this year we’ll kick off by simultaneously 3 Raindance Projects,

Building his own Eden

All about positive response on how farmers are quickly picking up Kisiki Hai ‘FMNR’ technique. Our district coordinator visited Mr. Iddi Kombo, a farmer from Magasa village in Chemba district who had this interesting story to tell. “I was brought up in a religious family, I read all  the story about The Garden of Eden, how beautiful it was with many natural trees, what an awesome place to be. Since then I have always wanted to have my own Eden”, Mr