My 20 Trees and Me launches in Nakuru County, Kenya
Back in December ITF took part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge to raise funds for our ‘My 20 Trees and Me’ project in Kenya. We told the stories of Ruth, Denis, Fridah and Clinton – four children from Mount Kenya intent on planting trees to improve their natural environment and their future. Thanks to…
A Fruit-full Three Years
By Sue Pitt – Fruit-full Communities Project Officer As the Fruit-full Communities project comes to the end of its third and final year this seems like a good moment to reflect on what has been achieved. The project has been led by Learning through Landscapes in partnership with ITF, The Orchard Project and YMCA England and has…
A Short Introduction to Carbon Sequestration
My name is Julian Radford-Smith and I have been working as Programmes Volunteer at ITF. I took 6 months off from my studies at the University of Queensland in Australia, where I am very close to completing a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Ecology). At ITF, a lot of people ask us about the amount of…
Stories from the Forest Restoration Front Line
The end of the year is always a busy period. On Mt Kenya, this is particularly true, as communities make the most of the rainy season to plant trees on the four sites being restored through our 20 Million Trees campaign. This is the moment when the hundreds of thousands of seedlings that have been…
Wedding Donations Fund Tree Planting Project in Zambia
ITF’s partner projects are funded from various sources, ranging from fundraising campaigns, legacies, monthly membership donations to those running marathons. But this year, one of our projects has been funded entirely from gifts at one couple’s wedding! Ina and David Stewart decided to donate half of all the money raised at their wedding to ITF,…
Challenging you to plant 100 trees for Kenya!
If you’re up for a challenge, we have just the thing for you! From 1st to 9th April, we’re organising the Mount Kenya Tree Challenge – a chance to contribute to planting some of the 20 million trees we’re aiming to plant by 2024! The Mount Kenya Tree Challenge is an opportunity to meet some…