Our Champion Farmers teach fellow farmers how to regenerate trees and vegetation on their farmlands and grazing sides. Their engagement is the reason why our regreening efforts are so successful. We train them about Kisiki Hai (FMNR) as well as Rainwater Harvesting, and afterwards they spread the knowledge to their fellow farmers. Each of them trains at least 150 households in three years and then keeps visiting each of them four times a year. That means 600 visits a year! Some of the fellow farmers, a champion farmer trains, may just live nearby, but others live quite far, and their farms might be even further away. And now the strongest thing about it: they do all of this work without getting paid!

This is why, as a huge thank you for their hard and successful work, we provide them with bikes. These help them reach even distant households easily and quickly. We already distributed over 1,300 bikes to our champion farmers in central Tanzania. The farmers can now relocate faster, spreading their regreening knowledge in an accelerating manner!