A Festive Vegan Fayre in Chard!
We were absolutely delighted to host Chard’s inaugural Vegan Fayre on Saturday 20th April at the Guildhall – what an amazing day it was too! Almost 400 ethical consumers came along to enjoy food, arts, crafts and things of an holistic nature, from almost 40 stallholders, offering a wide array of vegan goods and services. […]
Retirement of Trustee
We are sad to announce the retirement of our Forestry Trustee, Ru Hartwell, with immediate effect. Ru is unequivocally the person responsible for our tree planting activities commencing in Boré – do have a watch of our whiteboard animation to get the whole background story. Through his NGO, Community Carbon Link, Ru organised the planting […]
Our Mothers of the Forest in Malindi Clean Up Day
“There’s a lot more to being an environmentalist, than simply planting trees”. That’s the message our women’s empowerment group facilitator, Eva Jefa, echoes from the folks in our UK office, as she enthuses the Mothers of the Forest, in Kenya. On Saturday 13th April, Eva led a group of Mothers through the streets of Malindi […]
Green Up & Adopt Us as Your Charity of the Year!
Stitching good ethics and sustainability into your business, is no bad thing these days. It can benefit your business, the charity concerned and of course, the planet. It can also increase your customer base too. More and more environmentally conscious consumers are spending their hard earned green pounds and pennies more wisely and the most […]
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. […]