Kenya

After years of working with GRACE Initiative in Kenya, we’ve met several other individuals and groups also doing good work! We’ll introduce a few here.  

Photo captioned “Planting breadfruit trees in Kenya” shows some ladies with one of over 3,000 breadfruit trees shipped to Kenya from Germany, beginning in 2018.  It took some doing! Diagram “Trees to East Africa” shows a map of some of the logistics for East Africa!

We provided three breadfruit cultivars, Ma’afala, Ulu fiti, and Pua’a, giving diversity, different fruiting times, and suitability for eating fruit fresh or processed. 

Photo captioned “Young Breadtruit Tree in Kenya” shows of one of those trees.  It’s growing large and healthy. Soon it will be sending our branches or shoots allowing local propagation of more trees, which avoids the cost and complexity of importing.

Which brings us to one of our new partners, Bright Hope International. Like us at Trees That Feed, they work in several countries, plant fruit trees, run school feeding programs, and help to develop local entrepreneurs. We’ve already given them support and anticipate a long and productive relationship. 

We’re reenergized with optimism about the future for Kenya! 

Click Countries to go to the TTFF country operations landing page.