WE DONT THINK IN TREES WE THINK IN FORESTS
GRO has a set a goal to create impact for communities in developing countries and give people opportunity to create a stable income and steady food and watter supply.
15 billion trees
Cut down annually by humans
5 billion trees
Planted annually by humans
10 billion trees
Anual shortfall
Planting 1 Tree is very easy.
We just need to do that
~ Paul Flynn
The GRO fantastic four.
A development program to mobilising communities
Grow trees.
Water security
Food security
Education
Jobs
The key to scale
Access to seedlings, access to land, mobilising communities
Tree Nurseries are the key to restoring natural forests. 80% of our trees a designated to restore natural biodiversity. The remaining 20% are for communities and supply wood fuel, food, building material or other commercial use. By providing community forests next to natural forests, we remove the need of illegal logging. GRO aims to plant 5 million trees in 2025.
The key to scale
Access to seedlings, access to land, mobilising communities
GRO secures land from national governments, national forest authorities, kingdoms and religious institutions. Forest locations can vary in size from 10 hectare pocket forests to several thousand hectare forest and national park reserves. GRO is currently developing 20.000 hectares in Uganda and Kenya, while conducting feasibility on sites across East Africa and South-East Asia exceeding 150.000 hectares.
The Fantastic Four Development Model.
Plant trees and change lives.
The GRO Fantastic Four Model is designed to grow and protect forests by supporting local families to become independent of charity.
The process creates a long-term relationship with communities in three steps.
First, the community gets paid per planted tree well above the national average wage, to provide an immediate source of income.
At a community level we then fund water and food security projects to improve facilities and increase productivity and surplus for families long-term.
Finally we look to the future and fund education facilities as well as offer microfinance to create local jobs and increase prsperity at a grassroots level.
Our vision is to permanently improve the lives of families in need of charity by helping them to become employers of tomorrow.
The key to scale
Access to seedlings, access to land, mobilising communities
Then key to large scale planting is people. GRO uses the fantastic four model to mobilise communities through kingdom and religious structures. In 2024/25 GRO estimates to activate 100.000 subscribers to plant trees and become forest stewards in order to enrol in the GRO development program. If every subscriber spends 1 hour to pant trees, we can plant 1 million trees.
The plan for large scale a-/reforestation
INDIGENOUS FOREST ZONES
80% of planted trees are dedicated to indiginous trees with natural biodiversity. These natural forest become a home for to plants, birds and animals as well as provide a source of natural remedies for communities. This is what we protect and base carbon models on.
COMMUNITY TREE ZONES
20% of trees provide a free supply of forest products to communities in order to remove pressure off the permanent forest. These zones supply local communities with e.g. firewood, building material, commercial timber, fruit trees etc. These trees are not accounted for in our carbon offset models.
SUSTAINABLE IMPACT ZONES
This zone identifies all communites surrounding the forest. And makes the fantastic four development model available to them. We center community support around demonstration farms that help to build wells, initiate greenhouse and farm to market projects, provide grants for animal husbandry as well as industrialise and improve farming practices to increase productivity.
Fantastic Four Example
(June 2024)
Katuba Village. 0°22’09″N 33°34’30″E
10.640 trees planted
3 Water Wells repaired
100 families, 1 school, 1 Mosque
Food security project launched with 10.000 Tomato plants