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WINTER 2013
EnvironmEntal SolutionS to Humanitarian ProblEmS
FEaturES
Give a Git, Change a Lie
A Tree Grows in Haiti
The Gospel Lived Ot
DEPartmEntS
Directors Corner
Breaking News
Spotlight: Komalyangoe, Tanzania
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TREE plaNTINg IN
HaITI HElpEd avERT
EvEN gREaTER
TRagEdy duRINg
HuRRIcaNE SaNdy
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As I write this, Im ying
home rom Fang, Thailand,
where I was at Plant With
Prposes seventh Interna-tional Meeting. Every cople
o years, the program direc-
tors gather to strategize, ellowship, and learn
rom the host partners approach to lflling
the Plant With Prpose mandate to reverse de-
orestation and poverty by transorming the
lives o the rral poor.
It was trly inspiring to see the work taking
place in the northern hills o Thailand throgh
amazing agroorestry eorts, brand-new
Village Savings and Loan Associations, and
creative holistic ministry. We also saw niqeaspects o the Thai program, inclding the se
o satellite imagery and mapping technology
to establish land se rights. Giving local com-
mnities rights to sstainably se the orest
trns ot to be ar better or orest health than
simply restricting access. One o or board
members, Eric Kaiser, together with or tech-
nical director, Bob Morikawa, and a ormer in-
tern, Kim Roberts, recently wrote and present-
ed a paper on this work, which is highlighted in
Breaking News (page 3).
At the International Meeting in Thailand, we re-
ceived some very sad news rom Haiti. Bonny
Joseph, or VSLA coordinator or the region o
Cornillion died in an accident. The area wherehe lives is ll o deep ravines and caves, and
roads and ootpaths can be treacheros, espe-
cially when theyre wet. Bonny apparently ell
near his home, and the injries were atal.
Bonny was a dynamic commnity organizer.
He was chosen to start the savings and loan
program in the Cornillion commnities on
the border, and he srpassed everyones ex-
pectations. A yong man with a bright tre,
he was engaged to be married in December.
Bonnys loss leaves a hole in or immediate
eorts to help the poor and an even greaterhole in or hearts. However, we move orward
committed to the work to which he gave so
mch, and we move orward confdent o or
God-given calling to that work and the hope
we have in Jess.
While in Thailand, we also received news o
the ll impact o Hrricane Sandy on Haitian
commnities. Some o the more remote villag-
es where Plant With Prpose works have been
difclt to reach de to washed-ot roads,
Scott Sabin
Executive Director
and details are still emerging. The pictre is
grim, with lost crops and livestock and ma
ny damaged homes. Yet it cold have been
mch worse. The bright spot comes in realizing how mch Plant With Prposes soil con
servation eorts did to mitigate crop losses
Still, hnger will be a problem in the month
ahead in Haiti, and we have mch work le
to do. A Tree Grows in Haiti (page 4) high
lights the importance o Plant With Prpose
work in rral Haitian commnities.
The work o Plant With Prpose in Haiti
and arond the worldwold not be pos
sible withot yor spport. As we move in
to the Christmas season, we are thankl o
the git o yor partnership and or the waysGod is sing it yo transorm the lives o the
rral poor.
tHE SowEr iSSuE #98Plant With Purpose, a Christian nonproft
organization, reverses deorestation and poverty
around the world by transorming the lives o
the rural poor.
ExEcutivE DirEctor: Scott Sabin
DEvElopmEnt DirEctor: Dog [email protected]
markEting anD EvEnts: Becky Rosaler
stay connEctED:
4903 Morena Blvd. Site 1215
San Diego, CA 92117
Ph: 800.633.5319
Email: [email protected]
Web: plantwithprpose.org
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to lEarn how you can:Share yor Plant With Prpose storyHost an eventBecome a Plant With Prpose advocate
Leave a Legacy. Please consider inclding Plant
With Prpose in yor wills and beqests. Con-
tact Dog Satre: [email protected].
copyright 2012 Plant With Prpose
Bonny Joseph, VsLA coordinAtor
for corniLLion, hAiti
DirEctorS cornEr
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brEaking nEwS
HElP kili SoarThis winter, 200 adventrers rom
arond the globe will gather at Tanza-
nias Mt. Kilimanjaro to y o The Roo
o Arica to raise nds or Tanzanian
armers. Thanks to the eorts o Wings
o Kilimanjaro, Plant With Prpose will
move orward in planting 1 million
trees, starting 100 new Village Savings
and Loan Association grops, and help-
ing 500 women lanch small bsiness-
es. To sponsor a pilot while spporting
the work o Plant With Prpose in Tanza-
nia, visit wingsokilimanjaro.com.
uPcoming viSion triPSI yo havent visited one o Plant With
Prposes programs, wed love or yo to
prayerlly consider joining s. Contact
Dog Satre or more inormation:
TaNzaNIaJnr 23 - Ferr 3, 2013
Oaxaca, MExIcO
Mrh 15-20, 2013
dOMINIcaN REpublIc
Mrh 17-22, 2013
THaIlaNd
Jne 28 - J 8, 2013
HEaltHy PEoPlE, HEaltHy ForESt
In October, Board Member Eric Kaiser
and Technical Director Bob Morikawa
presented a paper titled Healthy People,
Healthy Forest at the Institte o Elec-
trical and Electronics Engineers Glob-
al Hmanitarian Technology Coner-
ence in Seattle. To read the paper, go to
plantwithprpose.org/resorces.
libErty anD JuSticE For allJoin s Febrary 22-23, 2013, in Philadel-
phia or The Jstice Conerence as like-
minded people join together to dialoge
abot social jstice isses. Register at
thejsticeconerence.com.
This Christmas season, why not give gits that will change lives? Plant
With Prposes Git Catalog provides the opportnity or yo to give the
git o hope to someone in need on behal o someone yo love!
Chickens give amilies a sstain-
able spply o ntrition and in-
come. Eggs provide mch-need-
ed protein or hngry children
and can be sold at market. Yor
donation will prchase 5 chicks
and training or a amily in need.
clutcH oF5 cHickS
Hal the worlds amilies cook
meals on open-ame stoves that
case prematre deaths and ram-
pant deorestation. The git o an
improved wood-saving stove can
help restore health to amilies
and orests.
FuEl-EFFiciEntStovE
A amily garden represents ss-
tainable hope to a poor amily.
Vegetables add ntrition to am-
ily diets and provide income. Yor
donation o $50 will help a am-
ily establish a garden and provide
training in sstainable gardening
methods.
FamilygarDEn
Poor, rral amilies are not look
ing or handots. Theyre looking
or opportnities to create a bette
tomorrow or their children. Plan
With Prpose provides this kind
o opportnity throgh Village
Savings and Loan Associations, a
savings-led approach to microf
nance. Yor git provides training
and materials.
SuStainablEmicroFinancE
givE EconomicoPPortunity
givE SEEDSoF HoPE
givE tHE giFtoF HEaltH
givE nutritionto a Family
$ 10 $30 $50 $50
vISIT
PlantwitHPurPoSE.org/giFtS
Give a git throgh the online
catalog or send yor git in the
envelope provided.
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wHy tHat mEanS FooD For FamiliES anD HoPE For tHE FuturE
In the midst o this bleak news, thogh,
glimmers o hope shine throgh. Fonds-
Verrettes, a commnity where Plant With
Prpose Haiti has worked since 2006, was
hit hard by the storm. Yet, while its tre that
many arms were completely destroyed,
thats not the whole pictre. In act, most o
the arms that are owned by armers part-
nering with Plant With Prpose srvived.
Elie Chery, a Plant With Prpose Haiti sta
member, shared this news in the days ol-
lowing Sandy: I have been to Fonds-Ver-
rettes. It appears that the town is nearly
destroyed. However, the soil conserva-
tion and reorestation activities that began
in 2006 and contine today have been a kind
o deense or the town. I we had not done
this work, the sitation wold be ar worse.
It is tre that some arms are destroyed, bt
many more srvived the storm. This is ob-vios evidence that we mst involve more
armers in this kind o work.
ancHoring tHE rootS oF HoPE
The majority o Haitian amilies live in r-
ral areas and depend on agricltre or
srvival. Withot crops, arming amilies
cant pt ood on the table or earn enogh
money to meet basic needs. And withot
trees, crops ail.
Its no coincidence that Haiti is both the
Western Hemispheres hngriest contry
and also the contry with the greatest de-
orestation problem. Withot trees, the soil
cant hold onto water, and withot water,
crops cant srvive. Withot trees, ertile
topsoil washes away every time theres a
downpor, leaving the land depleted and
making it even togher or crops to grow
and armers to eed their amilies.
Arond the world, the rral poor have
two assets they depend on or srvival:
the soil they arm and the rain that alls
on it. Deorestation robs the land o both
those assets, explains Scott Sabin, exec-
tive director o Plant With Prpose.
With trees, however, arms grow healthy
and ood prodction increases. So by
planting seedlings, armers in Haiti are an-choring the roots o hope both or today
and tomorrow.
With trees, I have more hope. These are
the words o Clovis Benoit, a 48-year-old
ather o 11 children, ages 9 months to 23
years. Clovis explains that since partner-
ing with Plant With Prpose, the erosion on
his land has decreased. In the past, when I
planted, I didnt have good crops, he says.
Now my arm gives more yields.
When I become older, I can crop trees
and the tre generation will proft rom
those trees.
Loise Geranie Bazil and her hsband
joined a Plant With Prpose association in
2010. Since then, she says, their crops are
healthier. I am encoraged in planting
trees becase it is an investment or the
tre, she shares. Since my hsband and
I became members o the grop, we have
already planted more than 300 trees.
Matelhomme Delisca echoes this senti
ment. All my land is protected agains
erosion, says the ather o fve. I plan
abot 100 trees every year. I water those
trees rom the cistern that Plant With
Prpose helped me to bild. Now, I am
getting more crops, even in bad seasons
The trees planted are both protection omy land and also a long-term investmen
or my amily.
In a contry where so many organiza
tions are ocsed solely on giving relie
aid, Plant With Prpose has been ocs
ing on long-term development. Instead
o delivering bags o rice, were provid
ing tools and training or sel-sfciency
And that means ood or amilies and
hope or the tre.
By Beth Luthye, Grant Writer
i e e he sd, e 1.5 ee h
d e e e, d e ued n. a e
dd e de, e d d sd
ded e e ed e d ee e ee dded fd ed 70 ee e .
With trees, i have morehope. my farm givesmore yields.
~Clovis Benoit, armer and ather o 11 children
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WWW.PLANTWITHPuRPOSE.ORG
Plant witH PurPoSE rEacHED a maJor milEStonE
SincE 1984, PartnEring communitiES HavE PlantED 8,773,772 trEES arounD tHE worlD.
rEStorationOF
Soil anD watEr
more
FooDProDuction
better
For kiDSnutrition
increased
Family incomE
ScHool FunDSFor cHilDrEn
Planting trEES lEaDS to a bEttEr tomorrow For communitiES
The cooling eect o a healthy
tree eqals 10 room-sized air con-
ditioners operating 20 hors each
day (u.S. Department o Agricl-
tre)
20 hours
The amont o oxygen 1 acre oorest pts ot while absorbing 6
tons o carbon dioxide (u.S. De-
partment o Agricltre)
4 tons
The average global rate o retrn
or every $1 invested in sstainable
agricltre (uN Environment Pro-
gramme stdy, 2009)
$60
The percentage o original orest
let in Haiti, de to deorestation2%
The nmber o trees partnering
armers in Haiti have planted
since 1998
1,826,449
The nmber o trees Plant With
Prpose armers in Tanzania plan to
pt in the grond in 2013
1 MIL
The nmber o trees planted
throgh Plant With Prpose
arond the world to date
8.75MIL
by tHE numbErS
trEES
PlEaSE
viDEo
cHriStmaS trEES, PlEaSE!
A tree is a git that brings lie. Simply, trees restore the land so poor, rral armers
can provide or their amilies with dignity.
Farmers partnering with Plant With Prpose have planted over 8.75 million trees to
date. Help them reach 9 million trees this Christmas! You can plant one tree for $1,
an orchard for $10, a hillside for $25, a grove for $50, or a forest for $100.
Prchase trees by visiting plantwithpurpose.org/gifts or send payment in the enve-
lope provided.
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tHE goSPEl livED out:how churches Are LeAding community chAnge
In October, a grop gathered or an emotional
gradation ceremony in Loma Verde, Domini-
can Repblic. This wasnt jst any gradation.
The event was celebrating the accomplish-
ments o eight commnity members who had
completed a literacy corsesix adlts and two
teenagers who can now read or the frst time
in their lives.
Beore, I wold walk arond and cold not
read any o the signs, shared Gregoria Sero,
one o the gradates. I elt rstrated and an-
gry. I cold not even write the frst letter o my
own name. Now, I can read and write. I can f-
nally sign my name!
The gradation ceremony was the reslt o a
local chrchs willingness to address the needsin their commnity. According to Armando
Osorio, Plant With Prposes program ofcer or
the Dominican Repblic, mobilizing chrches to
serve others is core to or mission as an or-
ganization.
It does not matter i the activity is literacy,
health, or reorestation, Osorio says. What
matters is that the chrch recognizes that Jess
cares or the whole person, and we shold be
His example.
mobilizED For cHangE
Over the past year, Plant With Prpose Do-
minican Repblic has partnered with seven
local chrches to pilot a program called
Chrch, Commnity, and Change. Throgh
this mobilization crriclm, designed by
Tearnd, pastors and chrch leaders grow
in their nderstanding o how to serve their
commnities. Then they gide congrega-
tions and commnity members in creating
a project that meets a vital need sing local
resorces. In short, the program is eqipping
chrches to live ot the gospel where they
live.
Awhile ago, I was looking or ways to get to
the heart o the commnity, shares TeodoraSanchez, a pastor in Loma Verde. Some-
times I elt that I cold not achieve this.
Plant With Prpose began acilitating Chrch,
Commnity, and Changeworkshops or pas-
tors and other chrch leaders. I learned that
it is the responsibility o the chrch to be in-
volved in commnity isses, she explains.
The chrch is part o the commnity and
participates in making decisions or the ben-
eft o everyone.
Pastor Sanchez adds, Or chrch is im
pacting lives, and we are addressing someo the problems that have aected or com
mnity. Now, there are more people com
ing to the chrch.
Dominican chrches partnering with Plan
With Prpose have acilitated 13 literacy
training projects this year. Not only are
adlts learning to reada trly lie-chang
ing stepbt chrches are also learning to
lead the way in transormational comm
nity development.
i learned that it is the
responsibility of the church
to be involved in communityissues. our church is
impacting lives, and We are
addressing some of the
problems that have affected
our community.
~Pastor Teodora Sanchez
Churches in the Dominican Republic, Mex-
ico, Haiti and Thailand are partnering with
Plant With Prpose throgh Chrch, Com-
mnity, and Change crriclm. In Mexico,
chrches have created recycling programs
that trn plastic bottles into constrctionmaterial, and Dominican chrches have
helped start literacy training programs.
Plant With Purpose Burundi partners with
chrches throgh a Theology o Work
stdy exploring the role o work in the lives
o Gods people. For a poplation emerging
rom a long period o war where prodctive
economic activity was impossible, this cr-
riclm has been enthsiastically received.
It has become an on-ramp or participation
in other Plant With Prpose programs too.
Plant With Purpose Tanzania integrates a
volntary crriclm called Redemptive
Agricltre into its programs. The stdy,
created by Food or the Hngry, is based on
Biblical principles, inclding Gods owner-
ship o the earth, stewardship, and neigh-
borly love.
cHurcH PartnErSHiPSat a glancE
By Beth Luthye, Grant Writer
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In the shadow o Mt. Kilimanjaro is Komalyangoe, Tanzania, a commnity o 2,500 people. Coee
prodction ormerly broght stable income to the commnity, bt as international coee prices have
dropped, smallholder armers in Komalyangoe have had to fnd new means to provide income or
their amilies. Theyve ond hope in the resorces Plant With Prpose provides to invest in a better tre.
Camilla Charles is a commnity leader, mother o 11, grandmother, chrch advisor, and promoter o
Plant With Prpose activities. She has seen the benefts o the instrction, inclding added income. A
smallholder armer, Camilla has gained training in mltiple sstainable arming techniqes, sch as
raising vegetables, doble dg organic arming, and livestock management. Camilla also realizes the
importance o sing el-efcient stoves or saving trees and improving health.
I really appreciate the work o empowering women in or commnities done by Plant With Pr-
pose, Camilla says. Since the price o coee ell, the income or men dropped, which made them
even orgot some o their roles in their amilies.
The diversity o training that Plant With Prpose provides armers has mitigated the eects o the sit-
ation. Camilla said women responded qickly to the instrction, which has improved their incomes.
Many women sed the increase in their fnances to establish new bsinesses or improve existing
ones, which had a positive impact on amilies.
I managed to establish a good market or my organic vegetables rom my garden, Camilla shares.
Since I was not able to meet the reqired volme, I also linked other prodcers rom my comm-
nity to spply vegetables or the Kilimanjaro Montain Resort. This tells s that we are also plited
economically.
Camillas lie shows rther signs o increased economic stability. She has managed both to install
tap water to her hose (saving time spent collecting water and increasing hygiene) and to change the
ooring in her home rom dirt to concrete.
Camilla adds that she believes her relationship with God has been improved when she see all the
blessings coming to her home throgh a partnership with Plant With Prpose.
villagESPotligHt:KomALyAngoe,
tAnzAniABy Becky RosaLeR,Marketing and Events Coordinator
camilla charles shoWs offher vegetable garden.
Plant With Prpose teaches arm-
ers how to establish high-yield or-
ganic vegetable gardens. In Tanza-
nia, Plant With Prpose promotes a
system know as doble dgs. This
arming techniqe enables ami-
lies to maximize a small space by
digging a garden bed one to three
eet into the grond, then flling
it with layers o dirt and organic
ertilizer ntil its one to two eet
above grond. The most common-
ly grown plants are cabbage, kale,
ccmber, beans, corn, bananas,
rit trees, amaranth, pepper, car-
rot, and avocado. People sally
eat three-orths o their vegeta-
ble crop and sell the rest or proft.
Plant With Prpose helps growers
market their prodcts, which they
sell to individals locally or in near-
by areas, as well as to hotels and
export sppliers.
wHatSa DoublEDug?
Glory to Godin the highest,
And on
EartH PEacE, gooDwill
toward men!lukE 2:14
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