Plant a Tree, Fund a Dream

Update 2012
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Why do we have the Plant A Tree, Fund A Dream project?
More than 100 million children do not have access to school.

Of the children who enroll in primary schools, over 150 million drop out.

Fees are still charged for access to education in 92 countries and such charges have a major impact through their exclusion of girls.

77 million children worldwide are not able to go to school due to lack of funds.

For socially disadvantaged segments of the population like poor inhabitants of cities, AIDS orphans and the physically challenged, any access to education is often particularly difficult to obtain.

The consequence of this lack of access to education is that 15 percent of those adolescents between 15 and 24 in third world countries are illiterate.

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Goals and Projects
Our goal is to encourage communities in AWF bases to rebuild forests and in return to provide fund for education. We want to produce fundraising resources for educational projects combined with reforestation in AWF bases, starting in Sierra Leone.
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Our project bases span tropical rainforests on three continents- Asia (Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Malaysia), Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone) and South/ Central America (Honduras, Bolivia and Brazil). We have the possibility of forest rejuvenation projects in all of these countries. Our tree planting programme works in conjunction with children in the communities in which we work. They plant seeds in nurseries we help to establish and then look after the saplings as they grow. As long as they keep at least 100 saplings on the go we will pay the cost of their education. As the saplings get strong enough we transplant them and the children replace them with more seeds. If they manage to grow 1000 trees whilst growing up then we will fund their university education. Trees can be used for the replenishment of jungle habitats, fruit production, products and fast growing 'firewood' trees.

In conjunction with this programme we run rainforest educational workshops in schools and we promote the sale of flower seeds where the plants originate in these forest habitats, so completing the circle.
What we can do
Firstly, we can fund their education, both at primary and secondary level and, where possible, at university, both in their own countries and abroad. Our tree planting programme allows them to 'earn' their education through protecting and supporting our shared environment.

One thousand pounds funds 10,000 trees AND supports 100 children through 10 years of schooling in Sierra Leone.
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We can where there is no school, as with a number of our communities, build and resource one.

We can run educational programmes especially designed for children, be it language training, IT skills, the arts, music, sports and more. Each workshop allows for the possibility of a young life being inspired to dream and to follow that dream, and we will be on hand to help nurture and grow it.

We can, for Pounds/ Euro 1000, plant 10,000 trees and at the same time fund 100 children through 10 years of their education! 10,000 trees is several hectares of forest, visible from space- we can name it in the name of the sponsor!
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