A PROJECT TO RESCUE UNGO VILLAGE FROM DESERTIFICATION-PLANTING TREES

INTRODUCTION

Changamoto youth development organization is a local / indigenous community based organization founded in January 2011 with registration number 21NGO/0004747 registered on 8th July, 2011 and Tax Identification Number (TIN) 118-511-379.

C.Y.D.O was founded so as to empower the youths/young adult through facilitation and implementation of supporting projects, social services projects, care projects, micro credit projects, capacity building projects, advocacy projects , discussion forums ,linkage projects as well as training and education projects, in order to alleviate poverty, provide hope and empower communities to attain sustainable development.

Our focus is to have energetic children who will be fit mentally and physically so as to increase the future manpower of the nation as well as whole world to have skilled and energetic individuals.

From the notion that the youth is the engine of change of any society towards sustainable development and at the same time the group children we have now is the future youth group of tomorrow which will be responsible for the change of the world that we expect in the years to come.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

Lushoto District is one of the eleven councils in Tanga Region located in North Eastern Tanzania. The district is situated in the Northern part of Tanga Region within 4° 25' - 4° 55'latitude South of Equator and 38° 10' - 38° 35' East of Greenwich. The district has an area of 2,051 square kilometers which accounts for about 7.3 percent of Tanga region land area.It borders with Korogwe District in thesouth and Mkinga District further east, same district of Kilimanjaro Region in the northwest and the republic of Kenya in the northeast.

This project was initially started since January,2019 as CYDO organized its members to use their own funds to prepare some few tree nurseries for reforestation to planted to distribute tree nursery making equipments to 3 primary schools whereby pupils were given a chance to take care for trees and planted those trees on April,2019 but the trees were very few compared to the magnitude of the problem.

Its now that we came to ask for support from the World community that we can get assistance in planting trees when it reach the Month of October,2019. We have decide to ask for funding to help to facilitate reforestation process in this Ungo village because it is very important to the surrounding villagers as they were able to enjoy a nice environment ,get firewood and got some water for drinking ,commercial and social activities were done effectively.

We are going to plant indigenous trees known as Albizia Gummifera with its family name known as Mimosoideae and it is known as ''Mshai'' in Swahili language. This type of indigenous tree is mostly recommended to be planted within a natural forest as it conserve moisture and support water conservation and it is preferable to be planted even nearby sources of water. This Albizia Gummifera is suitable to be planted in thealtitude of 1500-1600 m with rainfall up to 1040 mm, the conditions that are similar to what is being experienced at Usambara Mountains and in Lushoto at large. Each Kilogram of Albizia Gummifera comprises of 9,000 seeds and produces about 6,750 trees per eachtree nursery.The duration needed to serve for the tree nursery takes about 4-6 months to be ready for planting procedure to start.

ACHIVEMENT OF COMMITMENT TO LOCAL POPULATION

Changamoto Youth Development Organization has contacted with local community leaders as well as the Lushoto District Commissioner to ensure the maximum commitment of communities that surround the intended Ungo village to be planted with both indigenous and exotic trees. All these leaders has promised the maximum support to this important project to their communities. We also trained the community members of Lushoto District on the importance of planting and protecting trees for the betterment of present and future generation.

WE NEED YOUR HELP AND CONTRIBUTION INTO THIS INTERVENTION……!!!!