Bore

Janet Mranja with women from the Bore Climate Change Women's Group. Janet is one of our key project officers and she works with these farmers to help them develop sustainable income streams. The group have clubbed together and used the funds they receive whilst working in our nursery

Original indigenous Coastal Forest as viewed from the Boré Community Forest Centre. Much of the focus of our work is on helping the local community find sustainable income alternatives to charcoal burning that protect these vulnerable trees and their absorbed carbon

Brachesytigia spiciformis seedlings growing well in the nursery. This is a great indigenous variety that is also known as the Bean Pod tree and is the most common species in local natural forest. Local provenance types like this are great for helping wildlife as they've been growing

Stephen Ngumbao is one of the oldest farmers that work planting trees in Boré. He is a former teacher and pastor and is quite possibly the nicest, gentlest and most softly spoken human, you could ever hope to encounter. Here he is pictured in front of some of the residual indigenous

After years and years of mostly drought it seems like we are getting all that water in one go now! Great news for the Neem trees on this planting site but unfortunately the grass is doing pretty well as well... After Christmas dinner (maize porridge and salted fish) the farmers will