# Employee Update from Madagascar
> https://tree-nation.com/projects/eden-reforestation-madagascar/article/11338-employee-update-from-madagascar

- **Author**: Eden Reforestation Projects
- **Published**: 2021-01-20T12:41:09.000000Z

When you
support our project in Madagascar, you help people like Justin create a better life for themselves
and their families. Justin lives in Androhibe, Madagascar, and has seven
children and many more grandchildren. Before he started working with us, he
was a rice farmer and charcoal maker. His job required him to cut down
approximately 100 trees per month to make ten gunny sacks of charcoal, but it
still wasn’t enough. Justin struggled to provide and buy food for him and his
family. The stress of his financial situation caused him to lose sleep at
night, but things changed when we opened a new planting site near the end
of 2019. Justin allowed us to build a 100,000-pot nursery on his property and
has since taken a lead role on the project. He can now feed his family
consistently and even bought a cow with hopes to grow a herd. Without the
financial stress, he says he can now sleep at night. Justin said: “I feel
happy. It is like the sun is rising on my life. My heart is lit up as I am old,
and I can make a living.” Your support gives people like Justin a consistent
income so they can afford daily necessities and rest easier knowing they can
provide for themselves and their families. Thank you Tree-Nation community for all your more than generous support!