How a gift in your will can transform lives
Leaving a gift in your will can have an incredible impact on communities living in the drylands of Africa.
The projects you can support provide food and income for communities, tackling poverty today. They also offer long-term change, improving the environment and soil fertility, and tackling the effects of the climate crisis, for tomorrow.
The project has shown us how to produce seedlings, grow trees and protect the forest. We have to protect the forest to keep food security for our children and future generations.
Hear from Alimata first hand and find out how a Tree Aid project changed her life
“I live here with my husband, and my father and mother-in-law. I have five children – two daughters and three sons.
My role is taking care of the family, preparing food to sell at the school. I make tô [a traditional dish consisting of cooked millet, corn, or sorghum] to sell to the school. I buy the ingredients from the market.
After farming, I sell groundnuts and maize to get money and begin preparing food to sell. My husband has a shop, he is also a member of the local security, and he sells sand.
Men and women’s lives cannot be the same. I spend a small amount of money, but in the end I still need more. The reality is as a woman you need many things to take care of the children, and when they are going to school you need to give them something. I wake up, I go to the shop and take care of the family.
The project has shown us how to produce seedlings, grow trees and protect the forest. We have to protect the forest to keep food security for our children and future generations.
Planting and protecting trees can help our children for tomorrow. There are some trees we can use for our health and for food. Trees are energy for cooking, for the community’s health and food for all the community.
I wish the project will continue bringing benefits to all the community. To begin a project you have to follow the progress to ensure its success.”
Tree Aid’s projects create lasting change for families like Alimata’s. A gift in your will can support future generations in takling poverty and the effects of the climate crisis.
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Contact our legacy team today to find out how leaving a gift in your will can support more people like Alimata
Email giftsinwills@treeaid.org, call 0117 909 6363 or complete the form below.