What We Do

Trees for Tanzania is committed to help ease the burden caused by deforestation in western Tanzania. Our project addresses the following issues:

• Education and hands-on training are the keys to promoting good stewardship of natural resources.

Trees for Tanzania will:
• Invite church groups, schools and mosques to participate in tree planting programs
• Provide training sessions and educational materials for representatives who have been chosen by each group
• Facilitate group-level planning of forestry projects
• Deliver planting materials to group sites

• Natural regeneration of forests will not occur with existing population pressure to harvest firewood.

Trees for Tanzania will:
• Establish production woodlots
• Distribute firewood to those in need

• Kigoma municipal officials encourage reforestation and beautification projects, but lack the capital to undertake such projects themselves.

Trees for Tanzania will:
• Create parks and gardens
• Develop buffer zones located along roadsides

• Residents of Kigoma have no hope of escaping poverty without the means to produce an income.

Trees for Tanzania will:
• Establish small cottage industries that will produce services and materials needed by the tree project

• Research and technical development are needed to establish best practices for plantation forestry in the Kigoma area.

Trees for Tanzania will:
• Design research plots with advisors from Tanzania Forestry Research Institute, and reputed leaders in international forestry
• Establish experimental plots to maximize knowledge and resources
• Document and evaluate responses to the program in order to improve its effectiveness