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Donate Along With Us Funding Area: Environment
KOMAZA is a social enterprise organization which works to permanently and sustainably alleviate poverty and combat deforestation in Africa’s most underserved communities. Our flagship initiative is microforestry—an innovative combination of microfinance, microequity and sustainable forestry which we have developed and continue to pioneer.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Projects We Support
Microforestry Initial Expansion Planting Project
The microforestry initial expansion planting project will enable KOMAZA to establish microforests with a total of 300 new farm families. Microforestry empowers Africa’s poorest farm families to sustainably raise commercial trees at a significant profit. It is an innovative combination of microfinance, microequity and sustainable forestry which we have developed and continue to pioneer. This highly-effective, market-based strategy creates financial incentives for conservation, lifts our partner families out of poverty and offers our initiative long-term financial sustainability. Additionally, we will use the opportunity of this large-scale planting to finalize and formalize our planting manual—a comprehensive set of protocols, instructions, forms and other operational tools which will serve as a guide for future plantings and enable KOMAZA to replicate this promising intervention.
Support Dates: May, 2009 – May, 2011
