The heart of our mission is to see the communities we work with holistically transformed.
At each of our reforestation project sites, we start with a bottom-up approach. Our first connections are always with local communities, and our most important relationships are with local leaders, all of whom want a thriving local environment. Our role is to provide economic incentives and planting techniques to support them in restoring their local environment and economy in the ways they know to make sense.
Since we began our work in 2005, communities have gone from living under oppressive indentured servitude in degraded areas to receiving a living wage working to restore their local environment.