A 10-in-1 Climate Change Donation
you can Create ten meaningful benefits through a climate change donation to a “recruit & Restore” environmental charity
Community benefits
Environmental impact
mitigation and adaptation
How can we make the most significant impact to the multi-layered challenge of global warming through an environmental charity? How can we generate tangible, meaningful progress through a climate change donation?
The answer may be somewhat subjective and determined by personal goals, such as a desire to preserve forests, help fragile communities, protect biodiversity hotspots, or even offset your carbon footprint for the year!
But what if a very affordable climate change donation to a highly-recognized environmental charity could simultaneously address all the above objectives through a holistic solution and a proven strategy? Better still, what if by making the planet-friendly act of a donation to one environmental charity program, you could help tackle TEN of the most important global challenges for our future and also choose the specific level of impact you would like to make!
This is exactly what you can accomplish by making a climate change donation to the ReWrite Our Story program, which is centered around two community-based “Recruit & Restore” projects in Northwestern Madagascar and on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Western Tanzania. Today, modest contributions from individuals around the US (averaging just over $20 a donor) and Europe are providing work and increased household income for these communities through large-scale tree planting and long-term forest conservation projects.
Through the ReWrite Our Story program, globally-minded supporters are simultaneously helping to accelerate carbon sequestration, while advancing climate justice, resilience and mitigation. At the same time, they are addressing poverty and food insecurity for the most vulnerable today, and also protecting biodiversity and access to clean water for the future. Here’s how it happens:
Protect Our Communities
See how making a climate change donation to a Recruit & Restore environmental charity provides four areas of support for community team members in Africa:
Work began at the Recruit & Restore sites we support in Madagascar and Tanzania in 2012. Both countries are in the top 3 in the world where extreme poverty has the most devastating impact. Around 50% of people in Tanzania live off less than $2.15 a day, while in Madagascar the figure is closer to 80%.
As a result, just $20 will create a day of work and income benefits for villagers and also plant and protect 45 trees at both of these ReWrite Our Story project locations. Similarly, $20 a month will create a full two weeks of work and income benefits and also plant 600 trees in these highly vulnerable regions.
The entire continent of Africa, home to many of the world’s poorest populations, has only been responsible for 3% of total global emissions. Our project locations — Madagascar and Tanzania — are now also considered among the countries that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
In addition to helping participants meet immediate food and healthcare needs, increased household income at project locations can provide important ancillary benefits for local families, too. These include access to clean water, funds to pay off debts, and even the ability to start micro-enterprises.
In the village of Antsanitia in Madagascar, crabs comprise the main catch for fishermen. The local crab habitat is dependent on mangroves, but deforestation and land degradation has led to a steady decline in crab numbers in recent years. By restoring the mangrove forest, we’re gradually reversing this trend.
On the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, in addition to the direct income benefits above, ReWrite Our Story’s tree planting and forestry program support is also providing increased food security for families through the program’s adoption of agroforestry — the planting of fruit-bearing trees on farms.
In Madagascar, the drilling of fresh-water wells is crucial for planting projects because they provide a reliable source of clean water, which is essential for irrigation and watering purposes. These same wells that support forestry and agriculture can also help to provide easier access to clean water for the local community, reducing the risk of waterborne diseases and improving overall health.
In Tanzania, by planting the right trees in the right places, we reduce the loss of topsoil that is essential for farm productivity, thereby reducing pressure for clearing more forest for farming. Securing soil on slopes also keeps it out of the Malagarasi river that people rely on for household water needs.
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Protect Our Environment
Your climate change donation to the Recruit & Restore projects we support also provides three levels of environmental benefit for two vulnerable regions in Africa:
There is currently an alarming rate of tropical primary-forest loss taking place in affected geographies — actually, 3.7 million-hectares annually. This is equivalent to losing almost 10 football fields of forest every minute. It’ should not be surprising that tree planting and forest conservation programs have become environmental priorities, especially when last year the world lost 10 million hectares of forest coverage.
The nature of the large-scale tree planting and long-term forest conservation work in the ReWrite Our Story program is unique to each location. In Madagascar, community team members collect and sort mangrove propagules, before planting each species at the optimal tidal zone site. While in Tanzania, the local villagers receive support, training and income to plant and monitor the growth of ficus seedlings.
Forests are home to more than 80% of all terrestrial species of animals, plants, and insects. In addition, the forests that we support in Madagascar and Tanzania are critical biodiversity hotspots that are home to an exceptionally diverse range of endemic and threatened plant and animal species.
Specifically, deforestation in Madagascar has been threatening several species of the brown lemur with extinction, and the Mahale Ecosystem is home to 90% of Tanzania‘s 2800 endangered chimpanzees. Similarly, Lake Tanganyika, the planet’s oldest and deepest tropical lake, is one of the world’s top freshwater conservation priorities, as it teems with brightly colored fish found nowhere else on earth!
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In tropical regions such as Madagascar, mangroves anchor coastlines, and they also form a vital link between land and sea. Plus, their adaptation to highly saline waters and soils has produced astounding biological traits. And that’s not all: Mangroves shed leaves and branches that disperse and transfer essential nutrients into the marine environment, supporting intricate marine and terrestrial food webs.
In Tanzania, agricultural and sediment runoff threatens Lake Tanganyika’s sensitive fish breeding areas. Planting the right trees in the right places reduces loss of topsoil that is essential for farm productivity, thereby reducing pressure for clearing more forest for farming. Keeping soil on slopes keeps it out of rivers that support the fish breeding habitat in the lake.
Protect Our Future
As well as improving landscapes and livelihoods, your support of our environmental charity programs will also address these three essential areas of climate action:
Trees planted in tropical regions generally sequester more CO2 than those planted in other locations. As they grow faster than in other regions, they also release more biomass into the soil, thus sequestering even higher-than-average volumes of CO2. Carbon modeling data from our sites indicate that, during typical maturation, 45 trees planted through a $20 donation will draw down around 1 metric ton of CO2.
Equally, the 600 trees that are planted through donating $20 a month will remove around 14 metric tons of CO2 during typical maturation – a level of sequestration that is greater than the total amount of CO2 emitted by an average US resident in 2026 (13.5 metric tons) if you wish to offset your carbon footprint.
In both locations, ReWrite Our Story‘s planting and conservation efforts promote the restoration of once-productive fisheries that are so vital for these communities. With climate change driving more intense and unpredictable storms, using strategic planting and restoration efforts to stabilize soil is an essential tool in building climate resilience for people and biodiversity. Plus, restoring vital coastal ecosystems in Africa also helps to protect these most vulnerable locations from the worst impacts of land erosion and extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and floods.
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