Plant With Purpose

Plant With Purpose partners with communities that farm some of the world’s most remote, steep, and degraded terrain, equipping them to build climate resilience through restoring watershed ecosystems and reversing rural poverty. We were founded in 1984 in the Dominican Republic, where our founder recognized the connection between rural poverty and deforestation, and we have since expanded into eight other countries: Burundi, the DRC, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Thailand, Haiti, Mexico. Through partnership with us, farmers attend regenerative agricultural training, join saving and loan communities, and plant trees in agroforestry systems and in community forests to bring long-term restoration to entire project watersheds. Communities own the development process, with farmers choosing the agricultural/reforestation interventions that best meet their needs. After 7-9 years, communities graduate from our program, motivated and empowered to continue ecosystem restoration indefinitely.