Laura, 17, USA - Each student at Hope Integrated Academy (Uganda) will receive two fruit-bearing trees to plant on their property. They will be able to use the fruit to eat,to sell some in order to generate income, and use the seeds of fruit to plant more trees.

They will be asked to give some of the seeds back so that they can be distributed to others in need of income in the rural community. Many of the students that attend Hope Academy are orphans who come from families broken apart by AIDS and malaria, among other diseases. Some are living alone and struggle to earn income and just survive. Therefore, this project would be very beneficial to the studnets. For students whose families rent their home and/or have no land, they would be able to use the school’s property to plant the trees on.

Students would be taught how to care for the trees and the impact plants have on the environment. The planting of trees would be just one more step, regardless of however small, towards increasing the amount of oxygen released by plants worldwide, and would help make up for the amount of oxygen lost by deforestation around the world.

Students of Hope Integrated who would be part of this tree project.