Restoring Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains by Planting Food Forests
Urban Street Forest was founded by Raymond Brouwers, an Engineer in Forestry and Nature Management. We have a four-membered board with an international background (Amsterdam/Zurich/Murcia) and are supported by a small, international team of freelancers. We plant trees across Europe, with a special focus on the semi-arid southeast of Spain, and in Africa through partnerships with local organizations in Uganda and Tanzania. Our work combines ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, and community engagement to create lasting environmental and social impact. We plant trees with local farmers, communities, schools, and partner organizations, provide education about the importance of tree planting, and GPS track trees with planting information to allow for impact monitoring. For our agroforestry projects in Uganda we work with local people and select fruit/nut-bearing and native species to restore biodiversity, improve food security and strengthen local economies.
Project story
Restoring Hope in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains
Deforestation is devastating communities in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains. We're fighting back with food forests.
This tree planting project will take place in the west of Uganda, in the Rwenzori Mountains. In this area, due to poverty, massive deforestation is taking place, which leads to floods, landslides, and the depletion of fertile soils. Many families lose not only their crops and homes, but sometimes even their lives. That’s why we focus on creating food forests that provide nourishment, shade, and life. Through agroforestry projects with local farmers, we restore landscapes and strengthen sustainable communities. We plant native shade trees and fruits trees. We work with local people who collect seeds, grow seedlings in community tree nurseries and plant trees in the fields. Our aim is to scale up our tree planting projects in Uganda as there is a big need of trees. With this funding we can help more communities, expand our tree planting and secure the monitoring of the trees that will be planted.
Food forests for the future! Will you help plant them?
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Restoring Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains by Planting Food Forests
Urban Street Forest was founded by Raymond Brouwers, an Engineer in Forestry and Nature Management. We have a four-membered board with an international background (Amsterdam/Zurich/Murcia) and are supported by a small, international team of freelancers. We plant trees across Europe, with a special focus on the semi-arid southeast of Spain, and in Africa through partnerships with local organizations in Uganda and Tanzania. Our work combines ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, and community engagement to create lasting environmental and social impact. We plant trees with local farmers, communities, schools, and partner organizations, provide education about the importance of tree planting, and GPS track trees with planting information to allow for impact monitoring. For our agroforestry projects in Uganda we work with local people and select fruit/nut-bearing and native species to restore biodiversity, improve food security and strengthen local economies.
Project story
Restoring Hope in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains
Deforestation is devastating communities in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains. We're fighting back with food forests.
This tree planting project will take place in the west of Uganda, in the Rwenzori Mountains. In this area, due to poverty, massive deforestation is taking place, which leads to floods, landslides, and the depletion of fertile soils. Many families lose not only their crops and homes, but sometimes even their lives. That’s why we focus on creating food forests that provide nourishment, shade, and life. Through agroforestry projects with local farmers, we restore landscapes and strengthen sustainable communities. We plant native shade trees and fruits trees. We work with local people who collect seeds, grow seedlings in community tree nurseries and plant trees in the fields. Our aim is to scale up our tree planting projects in Uganda as there is a big need of trees. With this funding we can help more communities, expand our tree planting and secure the monitoring of the trees that will be planted.
Food forests for the future! Will you help plant them?
Project updates
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Uganda