December 2020 we started the “Re-greening Mima and Kibakwe Project” a lot of cool stuff has already happened, the video below summarizes all what has been done in 3 months.
Tony Rinaudo – Pioneer of FMNR (Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration) technique, testifies on the work of Bishop Simon Chiwanga – Retired Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Mpwapwa, Tanzania and Founder of LEAD Foundation NGO. Tony was in Germany recently speaking at a Willow Creek Global Leadership forum before 10,000 people when he was asked about how FMNR spreads, and decided to share a short story about Bishop Chiwanga and how he inspires others across Tanzania.
Mr. Rinaudo, on a separate
We are pleased to inform you that LEAD Foundation and Justdiggit are collaborating with Farm Radio international to promote Kisiki Hai/FMNR using a radio show on Dodoma FM.
In rural Dodoma where we work , people depend on radio as their pimay source of information. This is why we will be using radio to upscale and activate farmers to re-green their lands
We look forward to launching this radio program on 14th March 2020
After been trained by our champion farmers on how Kisiki Hai can restore trees within a short period of time. villagers from Bahi were inspired and started to restore trees in the surroundings of their new hospital.
They said that they expect many patients together with their relatives and friends from Bahi and outside Bahi district to visit the hospital when they are in need of medical treatment or other services related to health, this means they will need to have
We have started working with a professional photographer – Ngoteya Wild to document the re-greening activities by us and Justdiggit and measure the impact. The main reason of documenting these activities is to inform the greater public at large the visual evidence of how the re-greening of the area takes place and the importance of it.
One of the activities done is time-lapse setup. The camera will take one picture a day for the whole of the coming year. We can’t
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
Our coordinators and Champion farmers from Chamwino District have started a campaign to ensure that each village in the district has four demonstration sites for Rainwater Harvesting Fanya juu/chini trenches. This will help to educate and activate other 28,000 farmers in the district. 30 villages down, 20 to go! We are super happy for them since they are doing this out of their own initiative
We are happy to see that after receiving our education on rainwater harvesting through our champion farmers; many farmers were motivated and they have applied this technique in their farms.
Rainwater harvesting Fanya juu/chini trenches enable farmers retain more rainwater in their farms from little rains in arid areas like Dodoma. The technique also prevents vicious circle of soil erosion from run offs and contributes to prolonged moist soils for crops and less washing away of vegetation/seeds for healthy lands and
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
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
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