Tree planting Initiative

[Guest guest]

Greetings to all members. Over the week end I went home and as I was in Nakuru

Bus Stop I saw a man selling grafted mangoes, Oranges and Avocados. I thought of

the initiative to buy these trees and plant them over the week end to start the

initiative by my self and my family first. I planted 30 grafted fruits as a

start to motivate me and my community to carry out this initiative. I am leaving

for home on august 12th and I would love to start this in a big way. I hope the

donated seedling will have arrived, also the Icraf Kisumu branch are waiting so

that I make the move and they join in. I still would like to rally your support

and encouragement in this initiative.

I plan to give out 3000 trees by 14th August as a start and I would like to buy

these seedlings one tree seedling ready for planting is going for 15 KSH and you

can Mpesa it to my number 0717989877 or Zap 0733792940. One of the boys I have

worked with has come up with this suggestion that we write boards to show the

donors of the trees. For example if I donate for 20 trees we will put the name

of the donor that this tree was donated and planted for or by Tom Obiero and the

date will be there. And if you want to donate and you don't want your board then

we leave it.

Also the tree planting Initiative proposal is over if any of you would like to

receive it feel free to contact me.

Otherwise thanks alot to all who have called, and emailed me to continue with

this Just read below the importance of tree.

Tom Obiero

THE IMPORTANCE OF TREES

Trees are the largest and longest living organisms on earth. To grow tall the

tree has become a miracle of engineering and a complex chemical factory. It is

able to take water and salts out of the earth and lift them up to the leaves,

sometimes over 400 ft above. By means of photosynthesis the leaves combine the

water and salts with carbon dioxide from the air to produce the nutrients which

feed the tree. In this process, as well as wood, trees create many chemicals,

seeds and fruit of great utility to man. Trees also remove carbon dioxide, the

main greenhouse gas, from the air.

Trees are of continued importance to the environment. Tropical rain forests have

of particular significance; although they now occupy less than 6 per cent of the

land surface of the earth they probable sustain more than half of the biological

species on the planet.

Notwithstanding the debt we owe to trees, their emotive power, and their

importance to other forms of life, the forested area of the earth is steadily

being depleted. This is leading to the degradation of the environment and the

extinction of many species. There is now a real danger that in the not very

distant future man will destroy a large proportion of the present population of

species on earth, create an uninhabitable environment, and then die out himself.

If this happens it will not be the first time that a large proportion of the

species on the earth have been extinguished.

3 of 3 Photo(s)

Tree

[Guest guest]

Greetings to all members. Over the week end I went home and as I was in Nakuru

Bus Stop I saw a man selling grafted mangoes, Oranges and Avocados. I thought of

the initiative to buy these trees and plant them over the week end to start the

initiative by my self and my family first. I planted 30 grafted fruits as a

start to motivate me and my community to carry out this initiative. I am leaving

for home on august 12th and I would love to start this in a big way. I hope the

donated seedling will have arrived, also the Icraf Kisumu branch are waiting so

that I make the move and they join in. I still would like to rally your support

and encouragement in this initiative.

I plan to give out 3000 trees by 14th August as a start and I would like to buy

these seedlings one tree seedling ready for planting is going for 15 KSH and you

can Mpesa it to my number 0717989877 or Zap 0733792940. One of the boys I have

worked with has come up with this suggestion that we write boards to show the

donors of the trees. For example if I donate for 20 trees we will put the name

of the donor that this tree was donated and planted for or by Tom Obiero and the

date will be there. And if you want to donate and you don't want your board then

we leave it.

Also the tree planting Initiative proposal is over if any of you would like to

receive it feel free to contact me.

Otherwise thanks alot to all who have called, and emailed me to continue with

this Just read below the importance of tree.

Tom Obiero

THE IMPORTANCE OF TREES

Trees are the largest and longest living organisms on earth. To grow tall the

tree has become a miracle of engineering and a complex chemical factory. It is

able to take water and salts out of the earth and lift them up to the leaves,

sometimes over 400 ft above. By means of photosynthesis the leaves combine the

water and salts with carbon dioxide from the air to produce the nutrients which

feed the tree. In this process, as well as wood, trees create many chemicals,

seeds and fruit of great utility to man. Trees also remove carbon dioxide, the

main greenhouse gas, from the air.

Trees are of continued importance to the environment. Tropical rain forests have

of particular significance; although they now occupy less than 6 per cent of the

land surface of the earth they probable sustain more than half of the biological

species on the planet.

Notwithstanding the debt we owe to trees, their emotive power, and their

importance to other forms of life, the forested area of the earth is steadily

being depleted. This is leading to the degradation of the environment and the

extinction of many species. There is now a real danger that in the not very

distant future man will destroy a large proportion of the present population of

species on earth, create an uninhabitable environment, and then die out himself.

If this happens it will not be the first time that a large proportion of the

species on the earth have been extinguished.

3 of 3 Photo(s)

Tree