2013 winter sower

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WINTER 2013

EnvironmEntal SolutionS to Humanitarian ProblEmS

FEaturES

Give a Git, Change a Lie

A Tree Grows in Haiti

The Gospel Lived Ot

DEPartmEntS

Directors Corner

Breaking News

Spotlight: Komalyangoe, Tanzania

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TREE plaNTINg IN

HaITI HElpEd avERT

EvEN gREaTER

TRagEdy duRINg

HuRRIcaNE SaNdy


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As I write this, Im ying

home rom Fang, Thailand,

where I was at Plant With

Prposes seventh Interna-tional Meeting. Every cople

o years, the program direc-

tors gather to strategize, ellowship, and learn

rom the host partners approach to lflling

the Plant With Prpose mandate to reverse de-

orestation and poverty by transorming the

lives o the rral poor.

It was trly inspiring to see the work taking

place in the northern hills o Thailand throgh

amazing agroorestry eorts, brand-new

Village Savings and Loan Associations, and

creative holistic ministry. We also saw niqeaspects o the Thai program, inclding the se

o satellite imagery and mapping technology

to establish land se rights. Giving local com-

mnities rights to sstainably se the orest

trns ot to be ar better or orest health than

simply restricting access. One o or board

members, Eric Kaiser, together with or tech-

nical director, Bob Morikawa, and a ormer in-

tern, Kim Roberts, recently wrote and present-

ed a paper on this work, which is highlighted in

Breaking News (page 3).

At the International Meeting in Thailand, we re-

ceived some very sad news rom Haiti. Bonny

Joseph, or VSLA coordinator or the region o

Cornillion died in an accident. The area wherehe lives is ll o deep ravines and caves, and

roads and ootpaths can be treacheros, espe-

cially when theyre wet. Bonny apparently ell

near his home, and the injries were atal.

Bonny was a dynamic commnity organizer.

He was chosen to start the savings and loan

program in the Cornillion commnities on

the border, and he srpassed everyones ex-

pectations. A yong man with a bright tre,

he was engaged to be married in December.

Bonnys loss leaves a hole in or immediate

eorts to help the poor and an even greaterhole in or hearts. However, we move orward

committed to the work to which he gave so

mch, and we move orward confdent o or

God-given calling to that work and the hope

we have in Jess.

While in Thailand, we also received news o

the ll impact o Hrricane Sandy on Haitian

commnities. Some o the more remote villag-

es where Plant With Prpose works have been

difclt to reach de to washed-ot roads,

Scott Sabin

Executive Director

and details are still emerging. The pictre is

grim, with lost crops and livestock and ma

ny damaged homes. Yet it cold have been

mch worse. The bright spot comes in realizing how mch Plant With Prposes soil con

servation eorts did to mitigate crop losses

Still, hnger will be a problem in the month

ahead in Haiti, and we have mch work le

to do. A Tree Grows in Haiti (page 4) high

lights the importance o Plant With Prpose

work in rral Haitian commnities.

The work o Plant With Prpose in Haiti

and arond the worldwold not be pos

sible withot yor spport. As we move in

to the Christmas season, we are thankl o

the git o yor partnership and or the waysGod is sing it yo transorm the lives o the

rral poor.

tHE SowEr iSSuE #98Plant With Purpose, a Christian nonproft

organization, reverses deorestation and poverty

around the world by transorming the lives o

the rural poor.

ExEcutivE DirEctor: Scott Sabin

[email protected]

DEvElopmEnt DirEctor: Dog [email protected]

markEting anD EvEnts: Becky Rosaler

[email protected]

stay connEctED:

4903 Morena Blvd. Site 1215

San Diego, CA 92117

Ph: 800.633.5319

Email: [email protected]

Web: plantwithprpose.org

Tw: @PlantWPrpose

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Email [email protected]

to lEarn how you can:Share yor Plant With Prpose storyHost an eventBecome a Plant With Prpose advocate

Leave a Legacy. Please consider inclding Plant

With Prpose in yor wills and beqests. Con-

tact Dog Satre: [email protected].

copyright 2012 Plant With Prpose

Bonny Joseph, VsLA coordinAtor

for corniLLion, hAiti

DirEctorS cornEr


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WWW.PLANTWITHPuRPOSE.ORG

brEaking nEwS

HElP kili SoarThis winter, 200 adventrers rom

arond the globe will gather at Tanza-

nias Mt. Kilimanjaro to y o The Roo

o Arica to raise nds or Tanzanian

armers. Thanks to the eorts o Wings

o Kilimanjaro, Plant With Prpose will

move orward in planting 1 million

trees, starting 100 new Village Savings

and Loan Association grops, and help-

ing 500 women lanch small bsiness-

es. To sponsor a pilot while spporting

the work o Plant With Prpose in Tanza-

nia, visit wingsokilimanjaro.com.

uPcoming viSion triPSI yo havent visited one o Plant With

Prposes programs, wed love or yo to

prayerlly consider joining s. Contact

Dog Satre or more inormation:

[email protected].

TaNzaNIaJnr 23 - Ferr 3, 2013

Oaxaca, MExIcO

Mrh 15-20, 2013

dOMINIcaN REpublIc

Mrh 17-22, 2013

THaIlaNd

Jne 28 - J 8, 2013

HEaltHy PEoPlE, HEaltHy ForESt

In October, Board Member Eric Kaiser

and Technical Director Bob Morikawa

presented a paper titled Healthy People,

Healthy Forest at the Institte o Elec-

trical and Electronics Engineers Glob-

al Hmanitarian Technology Coner-

ence in Seattle. To read the paper, go to

plantwithprpose.org/resorces.

libErty anD JuSticE For allJoin s Febrary 22-23, 2013, in Philadel-

phia or The Jstice Conerence as like-

minded people join together to dialoge

abot social jstice isses. Register at

thejsticeconerence.com.

This Christmas season, why not give gits that will change lives? Plant

With Prposes Git Catalog provides the opportnity or yo to give the

git o hope to someone in need on behal o someone yo love!

Chickens give amilies a sstain-

able spply o ntrition and in-

come. Eggs provide mch-need-

ed protein or hngry children

and can be sold at market. Yor

donation will prchase 5 chicks

and training or a amily in need.

clutcH oF5 cHickS

Hal the worlds amilies cook

meals on open-ame stoves that

case prematre deaths and ram-

pant deorestation. The git o an

improved wood-saving stove can

help restore health to amilies

and orests.

FuEl-EFFiciEntStovE

A amily garden represents ss-

tainable hope to a poor amily.

Vegetables add ntrition to am-

ily diets and provide income. Yor

donation o $50 will help a am-

ily establish a garden and provide

training in sstainable gardening

methods.

FamilygarDEn

Poor, rral amilies are not look

ing or handots. Theyre looking

or opportnities to create a bette

tomorrow or their children. Plan

With Prpose provides this kind

o opportnity throgh Village

Savings and Loan Associations, a

savings-led approach to microf

nance. Yor git provides training

and materials.

SuStainablEmicroFinancE

givE EconomicoPPortunity

givE SEEDSoF HoPE

givE tHE giFtoF HEaltH

givE nutritionto a Family

$ 10 $30 $50 $50

vISIT

PlantwitHPurPoSE.org/giFtS

Give a git throgh the online

catalog or send yor git in the

envelope provided.


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wHy tHat mEanS FooD For FamiliES anD HoPE For tHE FuturE

In the midst o this bleak news, thogh,

glimmers o hope shine throgh. Fonds-

Verrettes, a commnity where Plant With

Prpose Haiti has worked since 2006, was

hit hard by the storm. Yet, while its tre that

many arms were completely destroyed,

thats not the whole pictre. In act, most o

the arms that are owned by armers part-

nering with Plant With Prpose srvived.

Elie Chery, a Plant With Prpose Haiti sta

member, shared this news in the days ol-

lowing Sandy: I have been to Fonds-Ver-

rettes. It appears that the town is nearly

destroyed. However, the soil conserva-

tion and reorestation activities that began

in 2006 and contine today have been a kind

o deense or the town. I we had not done

this work, the sitation wold be ar worse.

It is tre that some arms are destroyed, bt

many more srvived the storm. This is ob-vios evidence that we mst involve more

armers in this kind o work.

ancHoring tHE rootS oF HoPE

The majority o Haitian amilies live in r-

ral areas and depend on agricltre or

srvival. Withot crops, arming amilies

cant pt ood on the table or earn enogh

money to meet basic needs. And withot

trees, crops ail.

Its no coincidence that Haiti is both the

Western Hemispheres hngriest contry

and also the contry with the greatest de-

orestation problem. Withot trees, the soil

cant hold onto water, and withot water,

crops cant srvive. Withot trees, ertile

topsoil washes away every time theres a

downpor, leaving the land depleted and

making it even togher or crops to grow

and armers to eed their amilies.

Arond the world, the rral poor have

two assets they depend on or srvival:

the soil they arm and the rain that alls

on it. Deorestation robs the land o both

those assets, explains Scott Sabin, exec-

tive director o Plant With Prpose.

With trees, however, arms grow healthy

and ood prodction increases. So by

planting seedlings, armers in Haiti are an-choring the roots o hope both or today

and tomorrow.

With trees, I have more hope. These are

the words o Clovis Benoit, a 48-year-old

ather o 11 children, ages 9 months to 23

years. Clovis explains that since partner-

ing with Plant With Prpose, the erosion on

his land has decreased. In the past, when I

planted, I didnt have good crops, he says.

Now my arm gives more yields.

When I become older, I can crop trees

and the tre generation will proft rom

those trees.

Loise Geranie Bazil and her hsband

joined a Plant With Prpose association in

2010. Since then, she says, their crops are

healthier. I am encoraged in planting

trees becase it is an investment or the

tre, she shares. Since my hsband and

I became members o the grop, we have

already planted more than 300 trees.

Matelhomme Delisca echoes this senti

ment. All my land is protected agains

erosion, says the ather o fve. I plan

abot 100 trees every year. I water those

trees rom the cistern that Plant With

Prpose helped me to bild. Now, I am

getting more crops, even in bad seasons

The trees planted are both protection omy land and also a long-term investmen

or my amily.

In a contry where so many organiza

tions are ocsed solely on giving relie

aid, Plant With Prpose has been ocs

ing on long-term development. Instead

o delivering bags o rice, were provid

ing tools and training or sel-sfciency

And that means ood or amilies and

hope or the tre.

By Beth Luthye, Grant Writer

i e e he sd, e 1.5 ee h

d e e e, d e ued n. a e

dd e de, e d d sd

ded e e ed e d ee e ee dded fd ed 70 ee e .

With trees, i have morehope. my farm givesmore yields.

~Clovis Benoit, armer and ather o 11 children


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Plant witH PurPoSE rEacHED a maJor milEStonE

SincE 1984, PartnEring communitiES HavE PlantED 8,773,772 trEES arounD tHE worlD.

rEStorationOF

Soil anD watEr

more

FooDProDuction

better

For kiDSnutrition

increased

Family incomE

ScHool FunDSFor cHilDrEn

Planting trEES lEaDS to a bEttEr tomorrow For communitiES

The cooling eect o a healthy

tree eqals 10 room-sized air con-

ditioners operating 20 hors each

day (u.S. Department o Agricl-

tre)

20 hours

The amont o oxygen 1 acre oorest pts ot while absorbing 6

tons o carbon dioxide (u.S. De-

partment o Agricltre)

4 tons

The average global rate o retrn

or every $1 invested in sstainable

agricltre (uN Environment Pro-

gramme stdy, 2009)

$60

The percentage o original orest

let in Haiti, de to deorestation2%

The nmber o trees partnering

armers in Haiti have planted

since 1998

1,826,449

The nmber o trees Plant With

Prpose armers in Tanzania plan to

pt in the grond in 2013

1 MIL

The nmber o trees planted

throgh Plant With Prpose

arond the world to date

8.75MIL

by tHE numbErS

trEES

PlEaSE

viDEo

cHriStmaS trEES, PlEaSE!

A tree is a git that brings lie. Simply, trees restore the land so poor, rral armers

can provide or their amilies with dignity.

Farmers partnering with Plant With Prpose have planted over 8.75 million trees to

date. Help them reach 9 million trees this Christmas! You can plant one tree for $1,

an orchard for $10, a hillside for $25, a grove for $50, or a forest for $100.

Prchase trees by visiting plantwithpurpose.org/gifts or send payment in the enve-

lope provided.


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tHE goSPEl livED out:how churches Are LeAding community chAnge

In October, a grop gathered or an emotional

gradation ceremony in Loma Verde, Domini-

can Repblic. This wasnt jst any gradation.

The event was celebrating the accomplish-

ments o eight commnity members who had

completed a literacy corsesix adlts and two

teenagers who can now read or the frst time

in their lives.

Beore, I wold walk arond and cold not

read any o the signs, shared Gregoria Sero,

one o the gradates. I elt rstrated and an-

gry. I cold not even write the frst letter o my

own name. Now, I can read and write. I can f-

nally sign my name!

The gradation ceremony was the reslt o a

local chrchs willingness to address the needsin their commnity. According to Armando

Osorio, Plant With Prposes program ofcer or

the Dominican Repblic, mobilizing chrches to

serve others is core to or mission as an or-

ganization.

It does not matter i the activity is literacy,

health, or reorestation, Osorio says. What

matters is that the chrch recognizes that Jess

cares or the whole person, and we shold be

His example.

mobilizED For cHangE

Over the past year, Plant With Prpose Do-

minican Repblic has partnered with seven

local chrches to pilot a program called

Chrch, Commnity, and Change. Throgh

this mobilization crriclm, designed by

Tearnd, pastors and chrch leaders grow

in their nderstanding o how to serve their

commnities. Then they gide congrega-

tions and commnity members in creating

a project that meets a vital need sing local

resorces. In short, the program is eqipping

chrches to live ot the gospel where they

live.

Awhile ago, I was looking or ways to get to

the heart o the commnity, shares TeodoraSanchez, a pastor in Loma Verde. Some-

times I elt that I cold not achieve this.

Plant With Prpose began acilitating Chrch,

Commnity, and Changeworkshops or pas-

tors and other chrch leaders. I learned that

it is the responsibility o the chrch to be in-

volved in commnity isses, she explains.

The chrch is part o the commnity and

participates in making decisions or the ben-

eft o everyone.

Pastor Sanchez adds, Or chrch is im

pacting lives, and we are addressing someo the problems that have aected or com

mnity. Now, there are more people com

ing to the chrch.

Dominican chrches partnering with Plan

With Prpose have acilitated 13 literacy

training projects this year. Not only are

adlts learning to reada trly lie-chang

ing stepbt chrches are also learning to

lead the way in transormational comm

nity development.

i learned that it is the

responsibility of the church

to be involved in communityissues. our church is

impacting lives, and We are

addressing some of the

problems that have affected

our community.

~Pastor Teodora Sanchez

Churches in the Dominican Republic, Mex-

ico, Haiti and Thailand are partnering with

Plant With Prpose throgh Chrch, Com-

mnity, and Change crriclm. In Mexico,

chrches have created recycling programs

that trn plastic bottles into constrctionmaterial, and Dominican chrches have

helped start literacy training programs.

Plant With Purpose Burundi partners with

chrches throgh a Theology o Work

stdy exploring the role o work in the lives

o Gods people. For a poplation emerging

rom a long period o war where prodctive

economic activity was impossible, this cr-

riclm has been enthsiastically received.

It has become an on-ramp or participation

in other Plant With Prpose programs too.

Plant With Purpose Tanzania integrates a

volntary crriclm called Redemptive

Agricltre into its programs. The stdy,

created by Food or the Hngry, is based on

Biblical principles, inclding Gods owner-

ship o the earth, stewardship, and neigh-

borly love.

cHurcH PartnErSHiPSat a glancE

By Beth Luthye, Grant Writer


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In the shadow o Mt. Kilimanjaro is Komalyangoe, Tanzania, a commnity o 2,500 people. Coee

prodction ormerly broght stable income to the commnity, bt as international coee prices have

dropped, smallholder armers in Komalyangoe have had to fnd new means to provide income or

their amilies. Theyve ond hope in the resorces Plant With Prpose provides to invest in a better tre.

Camilla Charles is a commnity leader, mother o 11, grandmother, chrch advisor, and promoter o

Plant With Prpose activities. She has seen the benefts o the instrction, inclding added income. A

smallholder armer, Camilla has gained training in mltiple sstainable arming techniqes, sch as

raising vegetables, doble dg organic arming, and livestock management. Camilla also realizes the

importance o sing el-efcient stoves or saving trees and improving health.

I really appreciate the work o empowering women in or commnities done by Plant With Pr-

pose, Camilla says. Since the price o coee ell, the income or men dropped, which made them

even orgot some o their roles in their amilies.

The diversity o training that Plant With Prpose provides armers has mitigated the eects o the sit-

ation. Camilla said women responded qickly to the instrction, which has improved their incomes.

Many women sed the increase in their fnances to establish new bsinesses or improve existing

ones, which had a positive impact on amilies.

I managed to establish a good market or my organic vegetables rom my garden, Camilla shares.

Since I was not able to meet the reqired volme, I also linked other prodcers rom my comm-

nity to spply vegetables or the Kilimanjaro Montain Resort. This tells s that we are also plited

economically.

Camillas lie shows rther signs o increased economic stability. She has managed both to install

tap water to her hose (saving time spent collecting water and increasing hygiene) and to change the

ooring in her home rom dirt to concrete.

Camilla adds that she believes her relationship with God has been improved when she see all the

blessings coming to her home throgh a partnership with Plant With Prpose.

villagESPotligHt:KomALyAngoe,

tAnzAniABy Becky RosaLeR,Marketing and Events Coordinator

camilla charles shoWs offher vegetable garden.

Plant With Prpose teaches arm-

ers how to establish high-yield or-

ganic vegetable gardens. In Tanza-

nia, Plant With Prpose promotes a

system know as doble dgs. This

arming techniqe enables ami-

lies to maximize a small space by

digging a garden bed one to three

eet into the grond, then flling

it with layers o dirt and organic

ertilizer ntil its one to two eet

above grond. The most common-

ly grown plants are cabbage, kale,

ccmber, beans, corn, bananas,

rit trees, amaranth, pepper, car-

rot, and avocado. People sally

eat three-orths o their vegeta-

ble crop and sell the rest or proft.

Plant With Prpose helps growers

market their prodcts, which they

sell to individals locally or in near-

by areas, as well as to hotels and

export sppliers.

wHatSa DoublEDug?

Glory to Godin the highest,

And on

EartH PEacE, gooDwill

toward men!lukE 2:14

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