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Oct

Farmer stories from our regreening Arusha program

Enjoy watching our farmer stories video from our Arusha regreening program, see how our regreening projects with Justdiggit bring hope to the community and the efforts we do with the local communities to make dry lands green again. Erbacher Foundation supports LEAD Foundation and Justdiggit’s regreening projects in Arusha, Tanzania. Two of our main regreening techniques are: Water bunds: Man – made holes in the dry top layer through which rainwater can infiltrate the earth. Kisiki Hai: A pruning technique which
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8
Sep

Launch of Kisiki For Schools Project

We are happy to announce the launch of a new Kisiki Hai project that targets a young generation through trainings in schools, the project will be implemented together with our great partners Awaken Trees and Justdiggit The Kisiki Hai for Schools (KH4S) Project will be implemented from September 2022 and will focus on imparting FMNR (Kisiki Hai) knowledge to teachers and school children of both Primary and Secondary Schools. The Project will be implemented in 35 schools which spreads in 9
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12
Aug

We talk about Kisiki Hai a lot around here

We talk about Kisiki Hai a lot around here. This is because it is a very simple and fast solution to regreen dry lands. Kisiki Hai has an extremely high survival rate in drylands. In the photo you can clearly see how fast a tree that is being restored by Kisiki Hai can grow in a dry land in just about half an year. Imagine how it will be in 3 years? Together with our partner Justdiggit we have already restored
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29
Jul

200 new champion farmers trained in Mpwayungu division

200 new champion farmers from Mpwayungu division of Dodoma have attended our Kisiki Hai Training of Trainers (ToT) training that involves restoration of dry landscapes. The training was 2 days long that included Kisiki Hai restoration technique, planting of Gliricidia trees and methods to collect data of trees. The training was a huge success; from sharing experiences and learning from experts as well as finding out the best way to make the project a success. The trainings allowed more relaxed and
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25
Jun

Scaling up the regreening to Mpwayungu Division

Good news – we have expanded our reach and scaled up the regreening to Mpwayungu division of Chamwino district in Dodoma region. In partnership with One Tree Planted and World Resource Institute through #TerraFund for #AFR100 initiative we aim to restore around 500,000 trees in Mpwayungu division by the year 2026. We kicked off the project with a very successful advocacy meeting to seek stakeholders support (government, religious, public, private) and introduction of the regreening project. Working together with stakeholders will
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3
Jun

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
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20
May

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
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6
May

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.
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18
Apr

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
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31
Mar

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
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