Green gifts

 

Give a gift that helps people adapt to a changing climate.

Fund a local solution

Fund a local solution

Community members around Lake Chad are the best experts on their lands and how nature can help solve problems their communities face. Fund one of their conservation and restoration initiatives in a community around the lake. Suggested donation: $1,200

Start a market garden

Start a market garden

Help a woman rebuild the ecosystem. Through her new business running a sustainable market garden, she’ll feed her family, earn income, and support healing the land. Suggested donation: $300

Preserve land

Preserve land

While we work to restore the ecosystem, help establish protected areas for farming, fishing, and more. Suggested donation: $80

Plant 10 trees

Plant 10 trees

We're helping farmers around Lake Chad restore a devastated ecosystem and rebuild their economy! Add ten trees to Africa's Great Green Wall and you'll provide jobs and help heal the land around Lake Chad. Suggested donation: $10

Fight drought

Fight drought

Drought is putting farmers at risk of losing their livelihoods, with many forced to leave their homes. Your gift can give farmers hope through the construction of irrigation canals that will connect farmers’ fields to a steady water supply. Your gift will be matched 3:1! Water access for one family: $250

Seeds

Seeds

Hope grows from the smallest seeds! For people starting over after drought, disaster or war, seeds provide healthy food and the ability to earn an income. Seeds for two families: $50

Crop know-how

Crop know-how

Give training to farmers so they can grow more food to feed themselves, their families and their communities. Suggested donation: $100

Pair of Goats

Pair of Goats

Goats meet many needs — their milk, cheese and meat add healthy protein to diets, and their young can be sold to pay for education, housing and healthcare, or given to other families in the community. One pair: $70

Garden tools

Garden tools

Your gift of garden tools like spades, rakes and hoes will help families grow gardens full of healthy food to eat and sell at the market. Farming tools for one family: $75