Forestry Program

$2/seedling

Chief Simwatachela has recently granted SSAAP a piece of land for a tree-seedling project which will eventually become a forest. The goal is to create more vegetation to capture rainfall in an area that is rapidly becoming a desert.

Benefits

  1. Soil conservation

  2. Elimination of erosion

  3. Carbon Sequestration - removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

  4. Preserves indigenous culture through using bark, roots and leaves as medicine

  5. Provides raw materials for furniture, household necessities, and art

  6. Conserve indigenous ecosystem

The forestry program aims to conserve the indigenous ecosystem. For every community group that participates in the project, we will plant two indigenous trees in the areas with no erosion. The issue here is protecting the indigenous trees against the new imported trees, which have little to no indigenous inherent healing value to the N’gangas, medicine men in the village. Planting indigenous trees will promote the work and health of the traditional healing methods of the N’gangas.