We’re Seeking Two Volunteers!
We’re currently seeking two volunteers to run a variety of fundraising-centric projects for our Lyme Regis based reforestation charity. The Word Forest Organisation plants trees, builds classrooms and facilitates education in impoverished communities in Kenya. We also founded a women’s empowerment group there called Mothers of the Forest. Some of the project headers include: Charity […]
How Our Trees Are Combating Child Prostitution
WARNING: DISCUSSES CHILD PROSTITUTION: READ ON WITH CAUTION Seven years ago, the founders of our charity learned that during times of great poverty, some desperate Kenyans have two illegal backstops they frequently turn to, in order to put food in their bellies to survive; felling trees to make a bit of charcoal and child prostitution […]
The Latest Word Forest Team Member: Evaline Jefa
We are delighted to report that our team is starting to expand! Evaline Jefa has been the facilitator of our women’s empowerment group, Mothers of the Forest, since it was handed over to her by Florence Furaha, last August. Florence was very sad to step down as leader of the group, but she was heading […]
Our Visit to Kenya 2019: a brief outline
The dust is just beginning to settle on our teams’s annual monitoring and evaluation visit to Kenya, for 2019. Tracey and Simon West and Ru Hartwell – our CEO, Chair of Trustees and Trustee respectively – spent February in Boré, Coast Province. They were also accompanied for the month by volunteer and bushcraft tutor, Steve […]
Help! We’re Planting Trees for the Greenest Writing Contest in the World!
When the bell tolls at midnight on Monday 31st December 2018, it will mark the end of the 5th Magic Oxygen Literary Prize, fondly known as MOLP. This prestigious international short story and poetry contest has done some amazing things to help the planet and some of its poorest people, over the past 4 years. […]
How to Reduce Your Food Miles & Help the Planet
If you’re a tree planter, we love and applaud you for helping to remove CO2 and other pollutants from the atmosphere. There are lots of other ways you can prevent putting quite so much CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place. Taking a look at what you eat is a great place to start. A […]
Our New Office is Now Open!
Phew… what a gargantuan office move that was! After a considerably extended wrangle, the phones and WiFi are working, electric string has been safely tucked away, curtains have been sewn, carpet laid, paint applied and paper hung, tea break corner is loaded with a healthy supply of organic Fairtrade beverages and there’s more plant milk here […]
The Office is Now Closed… for a short while
We are absolutely delighted to let you know we’re about to move into marvellous new premises, about 50 yards down the hill! From the 1st October, our address will be: Flat 1 Malvern House 14 Broad Street Lyme Regis Dorset DT7 3QE We’ve been packing non-essentials and preparing for a little upset to our schedule. […]
Water: one of the challenges for women in rural Kenya
Our CEO Tracey West, talks to the Boré Green Umbrella Co-operative’s Chairman, Theophrastus Kithunga, about some of the practicalities of acquiring water when you live in the African bush. Experience this emotional snapshot, as Tracey attempts to do what thousands of Kenyan women do every day, as they collect water and transport it back to […]
