Carbon emissions - offset yours, by planting trees with Feed The Children UK

Feed The Children's programmes don't just help people to help themselves, with education, training and resources for self-help.

With today's concern about the environment, and the carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming - not to mention the rising cost of fuel - we are all being challenged to cut down the energy we use. However, that's not enough.

The earth's forests are its lungs; trees absorb carbon dioxide - up to 29 kilos per year - and produce oxygen. Yet at the same time as our emissions are rising, forests are disappearing.

Feed The Children's programmes include care for the environment; wherever we can, we look for solutions that use local resources and labour, and minimise waste.

Our tree nursery programmes in Uganda fulfil a variety of needs:

• School children gain skills in horticulture, by planting and caring for two trees.
• One tree provides fruit
• The other tree is a fast-growing variety which can be cut for firewood.
• The children take home a simple message to their families: "If you cut down a tree, plant two more!"
• They learn to manage their trees, and make them a sustainable resource for their community.
• The trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

Click here for more about our programmes in Uganda.

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Why not try our carbon emissions quiz and see how many trees it would take to offset the carbon dioxide you produce?

Visit our donation page to provide fruit, firewood and skills to young people in Uganda - and offset your carbon emissions.

Please call us on 0118 932 0095 or email for further information.