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The Green Garden
Women's Group, Tanzania
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1: Project Background.
Volunteers will work alongside this amazing women's group to help establish
a source of income for a rural community through bee keeping. Groups will
also take part in introducing fuel-efficient stoves to local villages
in an attempt to maintain the forested foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro. Both
projects are important for the survival of the community.
Background
The rate in which the native trees surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro are being
cut down is alarming and this will have dramatic effects on the biodiversity,
water retention and the beauty of this unusual habitat. The forests surrounding
Mount Kilimanjaro retain the water, which is eventually used by the agricultural
land at the bottom of the mountain to grow coffee. Devastation of these
forests could have dire consequences on the whole agricultural output
of the area. GGWG are a group created by Mpingo African Blackwood Project
to empower women to tackle this problem. These women have created a tree
nursery where they grow trees to sell to local people to plant on their
land, giving them some income and also helping to increase the number
of native trees in the surrounding communities. The women's group also
oversee the building of fuel-efficient stoves in public buildings around
Mount Kilimanjaro. These stoves then act as models for the community to
replicate in their own homes thus dramatically reducing the number of
trees cut down around the village. While the stove is being built these
women hold education sessions in the local schools and donate trees for
planting on the school land.
Project Aims
To reduce the destruction of the native forest surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro
through assisting a community run organisation. Helping to establish a
women's group in a new village and providing a means of income in the
form of beehives.
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