PROTECT TROPICAL RAINFOREST CAMPAIGN
We envision a world in which tropical rainforests thrive and support a balanced, healthy planet.
Our mission in thiscampaign is to protect tropical rainforests by partnering with people at global and local levels to create lasting solutions to deforestation.
We accomplish our core work, our in-country projects, by partnering with indigenous rainforest communities to help them make a sustainable income that allows them to protect their forests and their way of life.
We employ a collaborative, results-driven work model that enables the communities to have an active role in the design and implementation of their businesses leading to a long term viable management of the projects by themselves. By using market-based approaches to promote these products locally and elsewhere in Tanzania, the sales of these goods and services enable the communities to financially secure their future and provide them a platform to protect their forest lands from outside interests.
We are currently planning working with indigenous communities in the Biharamulo Protected rainforest in Kagera regional in Tanzania, to develop bottom-up economic opportunities, by helping them revive and create products made out of materials endemic to the forest and develop services that are unique to their regional.
This core work will be supported by other activities that raise awareness, move people to action, and generate revenue for our projects. Our education activities raise awareness of the need for rainforest conservation through partnerships with individuals, organizations, governmental entities to foster changes in everyday practices that impact rainforests. We will employ a range of media such as film and sound to convey the importance of tropical rainforests. And we harness our media platforms to support and amplify all of these efforts.
Together we are will support over 214,744 people, protecting 197,782 acres of rainforest, preserving 2,331,249,556 trees and storing nearly 741,683 tons of Co2.
KECA, founded in Kamachumu Muleba Kagera, Tanzania in June 2009, is a nonprofit organization..
