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To reduce the carbon footprint linked to the operation of its infrastructures, the Liège airport authorities are financing a program to protect and restore the Analamerana reserve (north-eastern Madagascar) with the creation of nurseries in the villages surrounding the reserve and the planting of 120,000 trees each year. Two new nurseries were created this week.

Our 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.

We have 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

Our team left this week to open nurseries 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

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 neighbourhoods.

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 programme 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.

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The Graine de vie team

Thank you in advance

The Graine de Vie team

February 29th – Gerard Doga reports. The 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.

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”.

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.

January 23rd – Gerard Poncet – Nursery management training, École Catholique de Bon Pasteur, in partnership with École verte de Diego.

22 January 2020 Onjatiana Ravoniniatovo. Plantation with the army, site of Andranganala on an area of 500 Ha

21 Janvier 2020. From our local correspondent Gerard Poncet . Start of the National reforestation in Diego Sakaramy. Participation of the staff Grainedevie at DIANA

On Monday, January 20, 2020, our local manager Voara reports that a team from Grainedevie Tana had gone to the Bongolava Region to carry out direct planting with the deputy and the villagers as well as two people from the army. We were able to plant 10,430 seeds on an area of 10 ha.

Campaign in Madagascar to fight fires caused by cigarettes thrown from bush taxis. Stickers will be put on bush taxis and drivers will be made aware of the dangers.

Gerard Doga, our responsible in Togo told us about the 25 tree nurseries currently active with 7 new ones coming soon.

This morning on Radio Planète Plus. Theme: forest fires and deforestation.

RTBF-Info . A Belgian NGO offsets carbon emissions through reforestation in Madagascar and Togo

Madagascar, island full of biodiversity – victim of the effects of global warming

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Graine de vie is preparing to plant 12,000,000 trees starting this December 2019 on the basis of the direct seeding technique. This technique is based on the direct introduction of the seed into the soil, without tillage. We distribute bags to the people who help us harvest 12 million seeds. These seeds will then be sent to all reforestation sites.