Women-led Agro-reforestation Project

Dear Friend,

Thank you very much for your support to our project engaging women farmers to implement agro-reforestation activities in their own farms. Agro-reforestation promotes the growing of fruit and timber trees alongside cash crops like vegetables and legumes and this is one of the effective ways in order for farmers to implement tree growing. Tree growing as a single enterprise is not effective because farmers need food supply and with the integration of food crops this situation is responded to. We found it effective to establish small, village-based seedling nurseries rather than establishing a centralized one because we are able to raise seedlings native to the area. This reporting period we are able to establish one seedling nursery and we hope to establish additional nurseries in the coming months. Again, thank you very much.

Very sincerely yours,

Michelle Frances Uy

Dear Friend,

Warmest greetings and thank you very much for your donation to our project women-led agro reforestation. Women should play a more active role in climate change mitigation and one of the ways to do this is by tree growing. Tree growing is a concept wherein farmers raise seedlings and then nurture the planted seedlings in the field until they mature. The practice before is to just plant seedlings and then leave them to the elements incurring high mortality. This time around we will ensure high survival of the planted seedlings. We also promote the idea of donors and supporters to pay for the seedlings and the farmer to plant them then provide regular location and photo reports of the grown trees. In this way the funder will have ownership and satisfaction of the trees being grown. Hoping that this idea will grow. This reporting period we started a small nursery in order to start a pilot. Hoping for your continuing support.

Very sincerely yours,

Michelle Frances Uy