Our international partners engage in a variety of projects that help promote sustainability and climate response in their countries of focus. Some of these projects, such as those created in response to national disasters/crises or a need to build local infrastructure, require fundraising in order to support their efforts. This page is continuously updated with their most recent projects. Each of these organizations has a 501(c)3 status and all donations through the links provided will be tax-deductible in countries such as the United States.
Tanzania Environmental Conservation Society (TECOSO)
Tanzania
Before and up to the 1970’s the rich and dense Tropical Rain Forests found on top of Mount Kilimanjaro geared up a significant rain forest ecosystem in the surrounding areas. The Kilimanjaro forest grew undisturbed and the land resource in the area was all ever-green with timely and heavy short and long rains throughout. Spring rain periods were common and traditional irrigation systems were operated effectively due to sustainable river flows. However, a destabilizing scenario cropped up in the early 1980’s with indiscriminate and uncontrolled tree cutting taking place for among others, adaptation to climate change, demographic factors and economic reasons such as growing demand of timber for commercial, forest fires aspect, demand for charcoal and fire wood increased. This leads to have some control efforts on the growing degradation trend of the natural environment of the Kilimanjaro was felt. A few nature conservation pioneers in the area came up with Tanzania Environmental Conservation Society (TECOSO) as a concept and an organization.
Long-Term Benefits:
- Minimize carbon footprint
- Promote environmental conservation
- Reduce soil erosion
- Improve human health
Manica Youth Assembly
Zimbabwe
Using the riparian restoration approach, approach, MAYA has committed to plant 1000 trees at Dangamvura Mountain for National Tree Planting Day in December and 10,000 in the next four years. Deforestation has taken place across much of Zimbabwe, resulting in habitat-less animals roaming around villages, rising temperatures, and decreased biodiversity. MAYA is looking to reforest these areas at a cost of $1 per seedling,
Long-Term Benefits:
- Enhance food security
- Limit human/wildlife conflicts
- Improve air and water quality
- Store carbon and increase resilience to climate change
- Lower local temperatures
Community Carbon Trees
Costa Rica
Help Costa Rican men and women to produce, plant, and maintain native trees in biological corridors on their own farms. This takes pressure off of logging in the rainforest by creating sustainable interdependent businesses, where local people are economically empowered to improve their livelihoods and financially incentivized to protect local trees. Max offset CO2 and transpiration excess water vapor to combat climate change.
Long-Term Benefits:
- Remove 30,000 tons of CO2 from atmosphere
- Preserve rainforest flora and fauna
- Reforestation in critical watershed reduces ocean acidification through erosion control and lower temperatures
- Create sustainable business for 44 women to produce fertile soil, organic fertilizers and pesticides
- Create long term income for more than 50 Costa Ricans producing, planting and maintaining trees around rivers and streams of their own deforested farms in wildlife corridors
