Donate to our Orchards Campaign - THE BIG GIVE

Please support women and young people to have a future by planting orchards. From mid-day on 22 April for one week to mid-day 29 April all donations will be doubled by using this link https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000Bi3ALYAZ 

As we enjoy the sights of spring, the blossom on the apple trees and the bluebells coming up, we are asking people to share some of that joy. In Mali, the land is turning to desert and crops are failing as there is not enough rain. It costs just £95 for a young volunteer in Mali to plant an orchard of two hundred trees such as grafted mango, orange, lemon, cashew and guava. The trees are far more resistant to drought than other crops and can be hand watered. The fruit and nuts provide a sustainable income, increase biodiversity and help to revive their land so that food can be grown again.

Yacouba Goita from Lopeque told us

“I transformed one acre of cotton fields into one hectare of cashew nut trees this year.  The cashew fruit can be eaten fresh and the kernel we transform into a nut butter or drink as milk.  The leaves are used by traditional healers to treat dysentery.  One acre of cashew trees gives me £500 to £1000 a year whereas I now earn nothing growing cotton as the rainy season is too short and it does not fruit. 

Please use this link to plant orchard trees in Mali https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000Bi3ALYAZ Thank you !

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