Our Shopping List To Reach 10 Million Trees!!
To Reach our goal of ten million trees we plant a variety of tree species across 39 nurseries. Each tree and nursery cater to a different need. Read below about each tree species we plant within this project and then find out how many of each tree species a specific donation could buy.
- Mvule.(Highly Endangered)
-Provides hardwood for construction and carpentry.
-Severely threatened species.
-Fell younger trees for furniture, building and charcoal.
-Grow haphazardly and slow growing.
-Aids Soil Sustainability
Image: Kibo Group
- Prunus Africana(Medicinal Bark)
– Traditionally used for fevers, wounds, malaria, arrow poison alternative medicine.
– Endangered.
– Hardwood for tool handles, utensils, furniture
- Grevillea Robusta
-Fast growing.
-Evergreen.
-Good for furniture.
-Resistant to rotting!
-Fencing.
-NOT native, Australian.
- Maesopsis Eminii
-leaves grown as fodder.
-Timber as furniture.
-Shade trees for coffee plantations.
-Fast-growing.
-Able to live for 200 years!
-Seeds can lie dormant and germinate with lunar cycles!
- Mango Trees
– Provide fruit
– Improve Nutrition
– Provide Household Income
- Avocado Trees
– Provide Food
– Improve Nutrition
– Provide Household Income
Image Erikampala
What Your Donations Can Buy!
Images – Size of Wales, Mbale CAP
Graphics, Hannah May Williams – Size Of Wales
By donating you will provide funds for the trees listed above. Above all you will be providing a stable income for communities in the Mbale region whose livelihoods have been severely affected by deforestation and who face the brunt of severe climate change.