Education is an important element of FOU’s work.Today’s children are tomorrow’s conservation leaders and this program creates youth development clubs where the students are put into leadership positions.The school tree nurseries serve as onsite science labs where the students can learn about and practice the scientific method by posing questions and answering them through experimentation.Kids learn from their supportive teachers, who integrate the Trees for the 21st Century curriculum into lessons about environmental conservation, botany, and horticulture, and then put the lessons into practice as they have fun growing and planting trees that beautify their school, their homes, and their region.This project will follow the community participation model and local residents will volunteer in the nurseries and provide other types of in kind support.FOU’s goal is also to educate subsistence farmers about agroforestry so they can increase land productivity, also to educate the entire population about the importance of preserving and expanding the rainforest in the Magamba Nature Reserve, which is important to help achieve Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals.
The Usambara biodiversity conservation (UBC) is designed to be a sustainable conservation project.Some of the trees will be sold to raise enough money to obtain inputs for the next “crop” of trees.The program has to make economic sense to the residents, which is why subsistence farmers are given seedlings to plant on their farms.As these trees grow to maturity, food from the fruit trees and Moringa will provide an additional income stream, helping people to graduate from extreme poverty.
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