We are an NGO dedicated to forest protection and reforestation, we started in 2009 and have projects in Madagascar, Togo, Benin and Cameroon
Our aim is to compensate for the ecological footprint of the inhabitants of our industrialized countries by planting trees in developing countries.
In order to ensure the monitoring and development of reforestation, we create a nursery in each of the planting sites and train local people to manage it. Through local authorities and schools, we are developing a program to raise public awareness of environmental protection. To achieve these objectives, all our members are committed to working on a voluntary basis to ensure that all funds entrusted to us are used directly and fully for the management of our nurseries and tree planting.
On the other hand, we pay the tree nurserymen and tree planting workers a salary and thus contribute to improving life of the people living in the reforestation areas.
Compensate your carbon emissions
Carbon offsetting is ensured by planting trees in large-scale projects whose nurseries and plantations are managed by Graine de Vie. We work in partnership with Madagascar National Parks to secure, protect and even restore primary forests.
Raising awareness of the people
By training tree nurserymen and raising awareness in schools and villages of the need to preserve the environment. By creating unifying projects in isolated regions. By integrating women into the labour market in order to combat exclusion.
Economical benefits
We employ 10 FTEs on site and 350 daily collaborators (our European members are all volunteers). By planting cash crops in a sustainable way (fruit trees, essential oils, building materials). Biodiversity also enhances the country’s tourist attractiveness.
FACTS ABOUT GRAINE DE VIE in 2019
We have offices in :
Belgium, France and Luxemburg.
500
Is the number of sites where we are involved in reforestation. We also have 132 tree nurseries in 16 of the 22 regions of Madagascar and in 8 schools, 9 projects restoring the mangrove and 11 projects protecting and restoring the national parks.
29.100.000
Number of trees planted since we got started in 2009.
We have 445 active collaborators
45 are active in Europe (only volunteers) of which 10 are directing operations and 400 are active in Madagascar for reforestation (salaried).
20.000
Number of children that we can raise awareness of every year.
15000 people/year
On average one person produces 10 tons of C02 per year. The 30 million trees we planted compensate for the CO2 emissions of 15000 people each year. (150.000 tons CO2/year).
Origin of donations :
Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Netherlands, Finland, Madagascar.
131
Number of planted tree species.
Projects in Madagascar
Since 2009, creation of 500 reforestation sites. We also have 132 nurseries in 16 of the 22 regions and 8 schools. These nurseries produce a total of 700,000 plants per year. Add to this 9 mangrove restoration projects and 11 projects for the protection and restoration of Malagasy national parks.
Projects in Togo and Benin
The project, initiated in Togo by Graine de Vie and local associations, consists of sensitizing the 116 communes in the country to the protection and restoration of their forest resources by creating in each of them a nursery producing 10,000 trees each year for the population and by planting 5,000 additional trees using the semi-direct technique.
Pilot partnership projects in Cameroon
Commune of KIIKI – central region – 1.000 km2 – 10.500 inhab .
3 nurseries of 10.000 cash crop trees for the population (one in each canton)
Municipality of MBANDJOCK – central region – 859 km2 – 31.000 inhab – 10 villages.
Creation of a nursery of 10,000 trees mainly for the initial reforestation of the interior of the commune (squares, roadsides, schools, churches, etc…).
Municipality of MBOUDA – western region – high plateaux – 437 km2 – 140.000 inhab
Three nurseries of 10,000 to distribute seedlings to farmers and guarantee the quality of the avocados and the biodiversity of their plantations. These nurseries will include 20% avocado trees.
Commune of BATCHAM – western region – high plateaus – 212 km2 – 220.000 inhab.
Nursery of 10,000 trees to distribute seedlings to farmers and guarantee the quality of the avocados as well as the biodiversity of their plantations. These nurseries will include 20% avocado trees.
Commune of NJOMBE-PENJA– western region – 260 km2 – 110.000 inhab.
2 nurseries (one in Njombe and one in Penja) each producing 10,000 tree seedlings which will be distributed to the population (cash trees) and allocated to the Commune to embellish the two communes (ornamental trees).
Communes of Djoum and Mintom. Support project for the Pygmy villages of the South, training of one or more pygmies in the creation of small nurseries of a few hundred trees in the different villages to enable these populations to replant near their villages, on the one hand, the cash trees they need for their survival and, on the other hand, the trees important for their culture and their pharmacopoeia.
Project to develop our direct seeding planting technique in partnership with IRAD (Cameroonian Institute of Agricultural Research for Development).
Its time to act !
Frédéric Debouche, President of our NGO.
In just two centuries of industrial revolution, man has managed to damage his habitat, the Earth, which is the magnificent and fragile result of millions of years of evolution, often in irreversible ways.
The destruction of forests is taking on such proportions that, each year, more than twelve million hectares of forest disappear, an area equivalent to four times the total surface of Belgium.
We do not have the right to leave our children with the heritage of managing our failings. If we do not act now, we will be guilty of failing to assist humanity which is in grave danger.
COMPENSATE YOUR ECOLOGICAL PRINT FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE
Plant a forest !
10.000 trees are needed to compensate 1000 tons of CO2 emissions for a total cost of 2.500,-€ which is 20,-€ per month for 125 months to compensate your ecological footprint for YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. The average cost for Grainedevie for planting a tree is 0,25 €
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Latest news about our projects
Reforestation in Cameroon
Graine de Vie started a reforestation project in Cameroon
Liège airport finances the restoration of the Analamerana reserve
To reduce the carbon footprint linked to the operation of its infrastructures, the Liège airport authorities are financing a program for reforestation of the Analamerana reserve in north-eastern Madagascar with the creation of tree nurseries in the villages surrounding the reserve and the planting of 120,000 trees each year. Two new nurseries were created this week.
Reforestation program in Benin
The Graine de vie philosophy is to do reforestation directly with the populations of the villages that draw resources from the forest. After Madagascar and Togo, we are planting our first trees in Benin where we plan to create 5 nurseries this year.
In addition to the environmental aspect, our activities have a significant social aspect because:
1)- half of the trees we plant are trees that produce food resources for the daily life of inhabitants (fruit
trees,…).
2)- Graine de Vie employs not only full time but also temporary day labourers providing financial means to thousands of people during different phases of plantation: from production to tree planting (nurseries, fence making, seed harvesting, terracing, potting, transplanting, transporting seedlings, digging wells, etc.).
3)- Graine de Vie raises awareness of hundreds of thousands of people about the need to protect and restore forests to ensure a better future for humanity.
Arbor Day in Togo – June first 2020
It was Arbor Day yesterday in Togo.
Through these photos, beyond the gaze of these people happy to plant trees, don’t you see the image of a world that can change?
Distribution of seedlings in Togo
Distribution of 340.000 seedlings by Graine de vie Togo.
We decided to be actors in the fight against global warming by creating nurseries in African communities that want to protect and restore their forests.
The rainy season has just started in Togo and the population is mobilizing to plant the 340,000 tree seedlings produced in our 30 nurseries.
We have a nursery and an awareness and reforestation project in more than one out of every four communes in Togo. Help us to create an identical project in all the communes of the country and thereby demonstrate that it is possible for humanity to reverse the trend of the systematic destruction of our environment.
For a better, fairer and more beautiful world.
TIME TO PLANT
New tree nurseries in the Betsiboka region
Tree nurseries were opened by our team this week in the region of Betsiboka between Tana and Majunga. We have a lot of requests for help and partnership in the fokontany. Some pictures of the new nurseries
100,000 meals for the confined of Madagascar
We distributed 100.000 meals to the confined in Madagascar. As we feared, COVID-19 arrived in Madagascar where the government imposed containment.
This is a tragedy for the poorest families who find themselves without resources and therefore without food.
We, therefore, decided to intervene and to use our contacts and our teams to distribute 5,000 packets to 5,000 selected families in the most precarious neighborhoods.
Each packet contains 5 kilos of rice, fruit and vegetables, oil and soap, and will enable a family to eat for 3 to 4 days.
At the end of this program more than 100,000 people will be able to eat decently for several days.
Help us to do more by donating your help to account BE60 0017 4158 3870 in the name of Graine de Vie.
Of course, each payment of at least 40 euros will give rise to a tax reduction of 45% of the amount.
Thank you for spreading this message around you.
The Graine de vie team
Thank you in advance
The Graine de Vie team
First Graine de Vie Tree nursery in Benin
First Graine de vie tree nursery has just been created in Benin in the capital Cotonou not far from the Abomey Calabi University.
4 days of activity from Wednesday 26th to Saturday 29th.
We put in fast-growing plants to reforest in June.
So far we have managed to plant 4000 of them. The Beninese association CEDV “Chaque Enfant à Droit à la Vie” will continue the work starting next week.
Agreement between Graine de vie, Ministry of Education and Actions Sans Frontières
Signature of the agreement between Graine de Vie, the Ministère de l’éducation nationale, and Actions sans frontières today February 20th, 2020
For this first year, we are going to set up nurseries of 500 trees for schoolchildren in about thirty schools and supply 2,000,000 seeds thanks to the bags of 5,000 seeds that we have developed for the direct sowing technique. 🌱.
Thousands of children will benefit from this program.
This collaboration is part of Graine de Vie’s objective for this year: “Raising awareness in schools on the problem of deforestation and the need for reforestation”.
Reforestation of the 3,000 hectares of the high plateaus using the “direct seeding” technique
Monday, February 3rd. From our communications manager in Tana, Miss. Onjatiana Ravoninjatovo.
The official launch of the reforestation of the 3,000 hectares of the highlands through the technique of “direct seeding” in the Commune of Fihaonana, with the presence of the Chief of General Staff of the Malagasy Army, CEMGAM. Nearly 200 soldiers participated in this first day.
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Celebrates its 10th year of existence (2009-2019)
