Giving Fruit Trees & Crops
Planting fruit trees and supporting village agriculture features high on our list of projects for village development. Trees provide food and shade. They benefit the environment and reduce soil erosion. Giving fruit trees and food crops are a simple and sustainable way to help feed feed and sustain themselves. Enabling agriculture is essentially giving people a livelihood, which empowers them to work their way out of poverty.
How it Works
Once our fruit trees reach maturity, they become a life-long source of food for a poor family. As a source of income they go a long way when nurtured with care. Families are able to sell or trade their surplus fruit and fruit products to buy other foods and needful items.
£10: This is the cost of gifting one fruit tree in Pakistan. Here, the climate can accommodate everything from apples and oranges to peaches and guava. £10 covers the cost of the your gifted tree, as well as transporting and planting.
£20: With £20 we can gift one olive tree to a family in Palestine, Gaza. Once an olive tree has reached maturity, it can become a life-long source of olives and olive oil. Families can sell or trade the surplus olives and olive oil to buy other foods and needful items. Last year, MGR gifted 50 olive trees to Gazan farmers and families who’d lost their olive orchards to conflict. Find out More
£100: With £100 we can buy and pay for the cultivation of a ten fruit trees in a remote village in South East Asia. With your donation we source a sapling that will thrive best in the local climate, and will bear fruit that is most suitable to the needs of the local community.
What We Do
MGR runs the Giving Fruit Trees project in remote villages, across countries affected most by hunger and poverty. The fruit trees we plant vary depending on the region, climate and natural diet of the people who will benefit. In Gaza we gift olives. In Pakistan, the trees we plant range from mangos to apricots. Below is a list of the kind of trees we gift.
Olive
Mango
Papaya
Grapes
Apples
Orange
Pomegranate
Apricots
Peaches
Guava
In some cases, farmers in the villages we work with require seeds instead of trees. Often the seeds are for maize or vegetable crops. Along with the seeds we also provide tools for planting and cultivation, as well as fertilizers.
The Hunger Issue
Hunger kills. Every day, 8,500 children die of poor nutrition and hunger related diseases. They die quietly before they’ve had a chance to live. 98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries. Hunger is most prevalent across Asia, and then Sub-Saharan Africa. Out of those affected worse by hunger are women and children. Thousands of pregnant women in the developing world die during childbirth for lack of proper nutrition and maternal care. Most infants are born underweight.
World hunger is a cause of social inequality, which means that while some enjoy surplus wealth and resources, others are being crushed by a lack of the most basic human needs.