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PCAT 2024 APPEAL

Planting trees in Kenya

Have you ever stopped to think how amazing trees are? At the heart of many eco-systems, they also capture carbon and can prevent soil erosion. However, over the past 10,000 years the world has lost a third of its forests. Half of that loss has been in the last century. Many people are now beginning to recognise the importance of trees.

Wangari Maathai a Kenyan environmental, social, and political activist recognised the importance of trees over 45 years ago when she founded the Green Belt Movement. This movement is dedicated, amongst other things, to planting trees, supporting climate resilience, and empowering communities. Since the movement was founded, Kenya has begun to experience the effects of climate change, with the effects becoming more serious with every passing decade. Now, churches, schools, individuals, communities, and organisations are planting trees across the country in an ambitious reforestation plan to try to reduce the worst effects of climate change. However, the costs of tree planting can be challenging.

Can you help with our 2024 appeal to enable the planting of thousands of trees in Kenya? £5 will pay for about 20 trees to be planted, £25 will pay for about 100 trees to be planted.

Money will go directly to some of our partner organisations including the Anglican Diocese of Mbeere and Moko Sacco. Moko Sacco produced the following videos to explain the effect of climate change in Kenya:

Have you ever stopped to think how amazing trees are? At the heart of many eco-systems, they also capture carbon and can prevent soil erosion. However, over the past 10,000 years the world has lost a third of its forests. Half of that loss has been in the last century. Many people are now beginning to recognise the importance of trees.

Wangari Maathai a Kenyan environmental, social, and political activist recognised the importance of trees over 45 years ago when she founded the Green Belt Movement. This movement is dedicated, amongst other things, to planting trees, supporting climate resilience, and empowering communities. Since the movement was founded, Kenya has begun to experience the effects of climate change, with the effects becoming more serious with every passing decade. Now, churches, schools, individuals, communities, and organisations are planting trees across the country in an ambitious reforestation plan to try to reduce the worst effects of climate change. However, the costs of tree planting can be challenging.

Can you help with our 2024 appeal to enable the planting of thousands of trees in Kenya? £5 will pay for about 20 trees to be planted, £25 will pay for about 100 trees to be planted.

Money will go directly to some of our partner organisations including the Anglican Diocese of Mbeere and Moko Sacco. Moko Sacco produced the following videos to explain the effect of climate change in Kenya:

How you can help

The work that the Trust’s partners in Kenya can do is limited only by the amount of funding available.

Funding

As a small grant giving trust, The Peter Cowley Africa Trust, welcomes donations. Donations can be made either for a specific programme of work or to support the work of one of PCAT’s Kenyan partners. Since PCAT does not employ any staff all donations will be used to directly support the work of the Trust’s partners.

Copies of our previous years accounts and annual reports are freely available at the Charity Commission's website. Just put our charity number (1037257) in the charity search box on the 'Find charities' page and hit ‘enter'.

If you would like to support PCAT’s work there are several ways you can do this:

  • By regular standing order via your bank of building society.
    If you would like to set up a regular Standing Order, please contact us and we will send you a Standing Order form. Simply complete this, send it back to us and we will do the rest!
  • By making a donation via Givey
  • By cheque. Please make it payable to:
    The Peter Cowley Africa Trust and send it to:
    PCAT Honorary Treasurer
    73 Welbeck Road
    Sheffield
    S6 5AY

Gift Aid

Whether you make a single or regular donation you can increase your financial giving if you are a tax payer – you can Gift Aid it, which increases your giving without you paying anymore money. For every pound that you give, PCAT can claim an extra 25 pence from the government, making your money go further and increasing the benefit to communities in Kenya.

Please download our Gift Aid form, you will need Adobe Acrobat to open it. You can fill it in on screen and email it back to us or you can print it out and post it to us at the address above.

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