Social Agro-Forestry Program

The GFSI-Trust will implement the following act ivies; Child Rights in School improvement including and Commercial beekeeping while OSIENALA will implement the following activities; Social tree farming for income, Commercial aloe production and Conservation of Nyakanga Valley as a business. FASCOBI deals mainly with Child protection.

Junior Staff quarters under construction at GFSI-Ltd site

Cottages under construction at GFSI-Ltd site

The GFSI-Ltd on the other hand will establish commercial Forest Estate on the Trust lands in collaboration with Suba County council, process and market bio diesel from jatropha seeds, honey, charcoal from specific tree, gum and gel from aloe and other timber products as well as provide support (logistics, seeds, seedlings, beehives etc through its central unit to the overall SGF-initiative
A community tree nursery at Kagoro (Gwassi Central Location)

The central tree nursery at GFSI-Ltd site at Kwethumbe (Gwassi North Location)

Benefits of the project
The project will be of benefit to the local communities, the government and the international fraternity. The local communities will benefit from the roads and schools which will be built through the project. They will have access to the bulldozers bought through the project to ease the logging process. Other benefits include creation of employment opportunities to the locals, sale of extra timber and charcoal to the neighbouring towns. They will benefit more from production and exportation of bio-fuel, timber and aloe. The forest will improve the rain catchment and aesthetic beauty of the local area.

The local government have a share in the income generated and will also root the project in its rural development programs. The local government will benefit from the roads and schools which will be funded through the project.  The project will also work towards achieving most of the UN millennium development goals such as eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, ensure environmental sustainability and achieve universal primary education