In Western Uganda, people with disabilities are leading efforts to restore degraded landscapes and build stronger livelihoods. From food forests and community farms to bamboo protecting vulnerable riverbanks, discover the difference three years has made.

There’s a park in Oxford that one of the participants knows well, but after taking part in the project’s nature-based events this year, she stopped to reflect on it again: “I come to this park a lot, but now I’ll see it in a new way.”

Not long ago I was gazing up at a huge East African camphor tree close to Mount Kenya. It had been as part of one of ITF’s early projects in 1956. The people who planted it could never have known who would benefit from it decades later, yet it is still there.