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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

LEAD Foundation reaches out Kigoma region with Kisiki Hai reforestation technique. Recently we conducted a 3 day training on “Kisiki Hai – Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration” reforestation technique to five staff of One More Salary a Non Governmental Organisation based in Kasulu District in Kigoma Region. The training was held at Nguruka Ward in Uvinza District and attended by three community representatives who were expected to become local Kisiki Hai /FMNR Champions at Nguruka Ward as well as Pioneers of Kisiki

Together with Justdiggit , in two years we have already brought back around 5.6 million trees in Dodoma region with the help of Kisiki Hai technique. This brings a big impact to the community by improving their farmlands hence more yields while conserving environments for both people and biodiversity. We are not done yet, greener lands are ahead of us!

This month we are giving awards to the best performing villages on environmental restoration through Kisiki Hai/ FMNR. We have selected 23 best performing villages out of 324 villages that we are active. We have already handled awards in 3 villages from Bahi District. The Bahi district commissioner received awards from us & our partners Justdiggit on behalf of villagers from Mpamantwa, Nguji and Ilindi.

In 2019 we extensively focused on sustainable management of naturals resources, increasing climate resilience to farmers, restoration of degraded lands, creating awareness on environmental issues and leadership. Despite having ambitious goals, our interventions are nature based, low cost and fast thus having a positive effect in changing lives. We actively change people’s mindset by engaging in different movement campaigns to create a collective wave of action. click here to read the newsletter LEAD Foundation 2019 Newsletter

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