Quarterly Report2015 • Q4

Focusing for ImpactYou are making a tremendous difference in the lives of impoverished people, and we are thrilled to share the latest program results with you.

What is particularly shocking is how few cash crops and food crops impoverished famers are growing before they enter our program. Our data shows, for example, that farmers in areas of Kenya grow just one marketable crop and just three food crops. These numbers are frighteningly low for people who live hand-to-mouth and who must feed themselves throughout the year.

The solution is simple: to end hunger and poverty, our program empowers farmers to grow more economic opportunities and nutritious foods by planting small food forests. We call these forests Forest Gardens.

Our Forest Garden Approach continues to attract incredible attention. Our recent article in Salt Magazine reached 50,000 people, a new blog on the TaroWorks website showcased Trees for the Future’s innovative use of technology, and the Voice of America featured us their Environment Beat segment. Our program has also received the highest ratings from Charity Navigator and Guidestar.

We need your help to scale this impactful program. Please visit our new trees.org site to get further involved.

New ProjectThe newest project we are starting will help communities in and around Singida, Tanzania, to improve their lives by planting millions of trees in new forest gardens. The project will start with 300 families living 150 miles northeast of the capital of Dodoma, and it will grow to impact thousands of families as additional support is acquired.

Singida is an area filled with rural farming communities trying to make ends meet along a highly degraded trade corridor. Trees for the Future Tanzania Coordinator Heri Rashid has begun mobilizing farmer groups. The families entering our program are struggling to grow enough millet and maize to feed themselves, let alone to earn the money they need to buy clothes or send their children to school. The zone is poor and dry and in desperate need of this forest garden project.

Central Tanzania is a prime location for forest garden projects

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Family in FocusDid you know that young people in Senegal are so desperate that they’re crossing deserts and oceans in search of a better life?

You can only imagine the dangers. Some never make it there alive! But, in their mind, risking death crossing the Sahara and the Mediterranean beats surviving another year as an impoverished farmer, struggling to make ends meet.

Last year, I traveled village to village and met with teenagers and young men and women. Sitting on the dirt floors of huts, in Wolof language, they shared the challenges they face.

They’ve never gone to school. All they know is farming peanuts and maize which turned their families’ farms into a barren landscape. Many leave the village in the offseason and compete for low paying and dangerous jobs.

Read the full story at: www.treesforthefuture.org/forest-gardens-saving-youth

“I had many mouths to feed and I saw tree planting as a way to feed my family.”

– Mate Mbaye

CHANGE LIVES

PLANT TREES

PROFIT

Permanently & significantly

increasing income

PEOPLE

Permanently ending hunger for

all our participants

PLANET

Restoring 4,774 acres of degraded land

6.5 Million More to be planted by 12/31/15118,583,031 Trees Planted Lifetime

3,360 Families82% of the participants entering our program

are food insecure. 34% are severely food insecure defined by eating smaller meals, skipping meals, and going to sleep hungry regularly. 56% report eating fewer meals in

recent weeks because of a lack of food.

896 training workshops

14 projects

5 countries

GROW FOREST GARDENS

Baseline: Farmers grow just 3 food crops.

Target: We aim to increase this to at least 12 per family.

Baseline: Farmers grow just 2 cash crops.

Target: We aim to increase this to at least 6 per family.

These baseline numbers are frighteningly low for people who live hand-to-mouth and who must feed themselves throughout the year.

Baseline: 16 trees per acre

Target: To plant at least 2,000 trees per acre

Top 3 Facebook Posts in Q3

Moringa Post - 9/19/15

� 34,723 People Reached � 858 Likes � 260 Shares

Forest Gardens Saving Youth - 9/18/15

� 28,062 People Reached � 1,155 Likes � 204 Shares

Cashew Tree Post - 9/12/15

� 26,673 People Reached � 1,049 Likes � 132 Shares

Tabitha Thuo (Kenya) with her youngest daughter Grace in their new Forest Garden.