Plant With Purpose
Discover real-world stories of communities overcoming poverty and deforestation! Plant With Purpose, a Christian non-profit, shares examples of environmental sustainability and stewardship from all around the world. These stories show us how faith, resilience, and sustainable practices transform people’s lives as well as their environment. As rural families overcome poverty and heal the planet, embrace empowerment, renewal, and hope.
Climate Change
Clean Water Is A Women's Empowerment Issue
Our world is facing a serious clean water crisis. A lot of progress has been made toward improving clean water access over the past few decades. In 1990, over 40 countries recorded over 100 deaths per 100,000 people related to water contamination. In 2017, the number was reduced to 9. Many people are increasingly aware […]
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Climate Change
Our 5 Most Asked Climate Change Questions
The following are some of the most common climate change questions Plant With Purpose receives and were addressed in our video panel, So You Care About Climate Change. The following is an adaptation of a few of the climate change questions that were a part of the discussion. To view the full video with more […]
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Climate Change, Climate Solutions
When It Comes To Climate Change, the Frontline is Female
by Camryn Jones Yahaira and Petronie live in rural Burundi. Both are very familiar with extreme poverty, as nearly two-thirds of Burundi’s population lives below the poverty threshold. Both of these women are mothers. Petronie has nine children—a large family even by Burundian norms, where large families are common. “My children scarcely ate one meal […]
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Climate Solutions, Sustainability
How Plant With Purpose promotes biodiversity
Biodiversity is a very important priority in Plant With Purpose's work. But what is biodiversity and why is it important? Milmer Martinez Vergara, our regional partnership manager to Latin America & the Caribbean, describes it well: Biodiversity is simple. Biodiversity is the variety of life in the world or in a habitat or ecosystem. The […]
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Sustainability
Entering the Climate Conversation: A guide to understanding sequestration
Understanding the science behind carbon and climate change can help us effectively care for our planet. More and more attention is focused on climate change and not just the threats that it presents but also solutions! Research efforts like Project Drawdown have evaluated the positive impact that different actions like sequestration could have on our […]
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About Our Work
Connecting the Dots: Human Trafficking and Climate Change
Human trafficking continues to be one of the most pressing human rights violations around the world. Human trafficking is the illegal trade of men, women, and children, and the exploitation of their bodies and labor. In practically every country on earth, people are coerced or tricked into an industry of modern-day slavery. According to the […]
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Climate Solutions
What is Plant With Purpose doing to address climate change?
Empowering Rural Farmers to Reverse Climate Change Plant With Purpose works at the nexus of environmental degradation and poverty alleviation to empower rural farmers to reverse deforestation and to sequester carbon, reversing climate change. Our integrated approach addresses economic, environmental, and spiritual contributors to climate change and results in healed land and relationships as communities […]
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Sustainability
What you should know about your trash
Recycling trash has been hailed as a simple way to help the environment for a long, long time. It’s easy to imagine the bottles and cans in your blue bin being picked up and sent to a factory where they’re melted down and remade into new bottles, cans, or other goods, right? Unfortunately, not always. […]
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All, Updates
Remembering our friend, Peter Illyn
A reflection from our CEO Scott Sabin On December 11th , the Church lost a pioneer, a prophet and someone whose voice should have been much more widely heard. I first met Peter Illyn in 1996, at a conference convened by the Christian Environmental Council in Chattanooga. Of all the people I met that week, […]
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COVID-19
Finding Surprising Blessings in the COVID-19 Pandemic (an update from Scott Sabin)
An update from CEO Scott Sabin Yes, 2020 has and continues to be a challenging year but it’s also been an amazing and surprising year in many ways. Jesus has been at work in the communities that we serve around the world. The passage that keeps coming to mind is John 1:5, “The light shines […]
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blog, COVID-19, DR Congo, Sustainability
Amidst a global pandemic, donors invest in the world’s most vulnerable
Alliance of U.S. donors gives $2.6 million to build resilience in Democratic Republic of the Congo [SAN DIEGO, CA, SEPTEMBER 2020] — The global coronavirus pandemic has highlighted our interconnectedness and responsibility for one another. As the virus continues to disproportionately harm already-marginalized groups, an alliance of high-capacity donors leveraged this interconnectedness for good. In […]
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DR Congo
Four Year's Time: Why Samuel's forest shows us that change is possible
A lot can happen in four years. In the summer of 2016, a Plant With Purpose team went to visit a field site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At the time, the DRC was our newest partnering country and one of the most difficult places where we could work. Most families ate only […]
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blog
Rational Hope: A Way Forward
Why are some vulnerable rural communities able to thrive in spite of the pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened our awareness of the turmoil in our world. Though we are isolated with family inside our homes, we are also increasingly concerned about the events happening outside. Extreme climate events such as flooding in Sudan and […]
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COVID-19
Did the pandemic really set back global poverty by 30 years?
The toll of COVID-19 is complex. It has directly claimed many lives, but even those who have managed to avoid the illness must still deal with the shock it has placed on the world. One of the biggest disruptions has been the economic turmoil created by the illness. Many of the projections about how this […]
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DR Congo, Our Response
Great News for our work in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Jul. 30, 2020 We have exciting news to share with you this week! We are expanding our work to impact nearly 95,000 more people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by launching operations in five additional watershed areas. Some of you may be familiar with the story of our work in the DRC. When […]
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