Aid Africa does more than distribute environmentally friendly stoves. We have a nursery where we grow fruit trees to distribute to the villages. We grow avocado, jack fruit, orange, citrus, papaya, and others. Aid Africa is an NGO that is not going to pull out of Northern Uganda as the war trauma ends, like so many other NGOs have already done. It will take years and years for us to install these special stoves in every village, and we will be making Northern Uganda even greener with all the fruit trees we are planting.
George Ovola, Aid Africa Human Resource Manager and Water Project Manager, is explaining how to plant the trees and how to take care of them as they grow bigger. He explains how we will be handing them out. He is a good communicator, and the people like him. We are in the village of Bobi.
Each person called will get two citrus trees and a jack fruit tree. The orange is an example of what the tree will produce if they take good care of it.
Lilly, on the right, is giving a tree to one of the villagers. She is Aid Africa's Tree Site Manager.
George was doing all the talking and explaining to these men. The women are sitting opposite them along the hut wall. I knew it would be the women who would plant and care for the trees, so I tried to get George to turn around and talk to the women, but he stayed facing the men. Maybe it had something to do with respect. I just hope the women saw his demonstration...
When their name is called, they will come to the van and get their trees.
The lady in the back ground was getting 3 trees for herself and 3 trees for another family member. Her hands are full!
This little child wanted her own tree to plant! She kept holding out her little hands!
We handed out hundreds of trees today. It was my first tree distribution in the village Bobi. We made a lot of people happy today. In a year, they will have fruit for their family to eat.
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