Hope For The People of Tigray

Planting a Forest Together:

In 2022, thanks to your orders and our commitment to donate 1% of sales, we were able to feed farmers and provide the seeds to combat generations of poverty and starvation.

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Project Update from WeForest:

At the start of this year, the 23 000 farmers had reaped their harvests and were safe in the knowledge that their families and livestock would eat for another year. Approximately 4319 quintals of wheat remained in storage in Nazareth waiting for the border to open again. We plan to transport and distribute them in June 2022 for July planting. 

Our Ethiopia Director Aklilu Aklilu Negussie traveled to Tigray to transport cash, visit project sites and discuss post-harvest support programmes with the team and responsible regional authorities. WeForest was acknowledged by the district office for the seeds and our continued restoration activities while most NGOs had withdrawn from the region because of the conflict.

On January 7th 2022, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement calling for “national reconciliation” as Ethiopia celebrated Orthodox Christmas and announced it would pardon and release some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees. In mid-January we called the representative of the Norwegian Development Fund in Addis to see if they could help us with the transfer of funds and ask about his analysis of the situation. He expressed some hope about the future evolution and possible reopening of banks.

Thank you for your trust and for making this possible!