Mauya! A warm African welcome!

Tree Africa protects the people as well as the environment. Our work with small farmers, schools, businesses and governments includes planting trees, nutrition gardens, organic and conservation farming, biodiversity protection and recycling.

We have supported and protected the African people and environment for 19 years and are considered to be one of southern Africa’s most effective local NGOs. At least 90% of our income goes directly into projects in Africa.

We love trees!

The planting and nurturing of hundreds of thousands of trees across southern Africa is central to our efforts to protect natural resources whilst improving people’s security, nutrition and health. Indigenous trees that provide food, trees with medicinal properties and trees that communities can use to generate income. Stars of the show are the Moringa and Jatropha trees.

African Solutions to African Problems

Founded in 1990 by two Zimbabwean women, Tree Africa is a local force for change. (Read more about ‘The Rhino Girls’ here.) Tree Africa’s all local regional staff ensure that projects are community led, strengthening existing community groups rather than creating new ones. We build on local knowledge and cultural conservation practices. Tree Africa is a truly African organisation although the wisdom of our approach is universal.

Lao Tzu (c. 600BC) sums it up with these wise words:
Go to the people.
Live with them.
Learn from them.
Love them.
Start with what they know.
Build with what they have.
But with the best leaders, when the work is done,
the task accomplished, the people will say:
We have done this ourselves.

Thank you

We are very grateful to these people

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