10 % OF THE COST FOR EACH IMAGE, DOWNLOAD OR PRINT,
GOES TO THE VI AGROFORESTRY PROGRAMME
The Vi Agroforestry Programme
The Vi Agroforestry Programme is a Swedish Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with Head Office in Stockholm. The programme runs seven projects around Lake Victoria, two in Kenya, one in Uganda and three in Tanzania and one in Rwanda. Today we are working with around 150.000 families, i.e. more than 1 million people. We have a vision and ambition to assist many more. Around 30-40 million people live in Lake Victoria basin.
Every year, small-scale farmers grow over ten million trees in agroforestry and land rehabilitation systems. This is done to prevent soil erosion, produce fuel-wood, timber, and fruits, to generate income and to improve the environment, i.e. to improve livelihood - for this generation and the coming ones. In an external evaluation of our work, financed by Sida, the consultants stated "None of the members of the assessment team have come across a bilateral project capable of producing similar results at such low cost." Since then (year 2000) we have improved further and become even more efficient. Direct contact with the farmers, knowledge and the power of trees makes Vi Agroforestry an extremely effective development project.
One tree costs $3. The trees are given as gifts for Christmas, birthdays, exams and weddings, or as memorials to departed friends and family. Direct gifts are of course always welcome.