# Collaboration = Resilience (Fuhar Mwenga)
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- **Author**: Ru Hartwell
- **Published**: 2024-06-10T18:02:59.000000Z

If you are reading this, you probably agree with us that planting a tree is the best single action that a human can take to forestall the climate and bio-diversity crises but in Boré we've learned the hard way that tree planting of itself is not enough. We've been planting with Tree-Nation since 2013 and in that time we've discovered that we need to help the forest communities that plant the trees in a whole range of ways to be confident that the trees will mature and continue to  do their climate cooling and bio-diversity enhancng work in the long term. One of the key ways that we help the Boré community is through assisting them to build partnerships with other local and national development actors. In this way we ensure that the afforestation projects and plans that we develop will work in concert with the wider state, provincial and county sustainable development strategies. If a community tree planting project is implemented in isolation, without reference to the wider sustainable development context, then it is unlikely to be successful in the long term. By building partnerships with other agencies, we learn from their experience and share the benefits of our own but most importantly we ensure we are not 'pulling against each other'.As the climate and nature emergencies deepen, one of the best ways that we can build resilience is through effective partnership building and that is what we are trying to do, all the time, in Boré. Below are a collection of images that show some of the key tree planting partnerships that we have been able to establish over the last 10 or so years.Supplying tree seedlings to be planted by Kilifi County Government officials as part of the Kenyan National Tree Planting Initiative which aims to see 15 Billion new trees put in by 2032. Luckily it was a very rainy day so the baby trees were happy.Partnership meeting at local Kakuhani Primary School. Working with local schools is a key way to get the message across to young people and if we fail to get them onboard, we might as well give up now......  After the meeting, school staff and local community members joined forces  with project staff (yellow tops) to clear scrub and 'Boundary Plant' in the school grounds (below).We also work with a number of local Women's Groups as much research has shown that development funds that are allocated to women yield a far higher return on investment than those given to men. Here women from the local Amkeni Women's Group plant Neem seedlings on their communally owned planting shamba. All the income from the trees will revert to the women themselves.As part of our community outreach programme we have initiated meetings with local motorbike taxi riders (known in the area as 'Boda-Boda Drivers') who are mostly under employed young men.  Their earnings from this kind of work are very variable so we try  to help these guys understand that planting trees can provide an alternative and stable long term income for them and their families and needn't cost them much more than their own labour which is the one resource that they can provide themselves.'Boda Boda' drivers learning about tree planting and the importance of forest protection and afterwards the boys help with some enrichment planting in the nearby Singwaya sacred 'Kaya' forest reserve.The world is changing fast and some of the changes aren't that positive but we can take heart from the knowledge that we are stronger when we work alongside others, or as they say in Swahili 'Fuhar Mwenga" - which translates directly as                                                                                                     ' We are together'