Thailand
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.
Thailand
Jati, Thailand: "When you care for the forest, it gives back."
“I used to think I had most of what I needed.” “My family and I had enough to eat,” Jati says. “Sometimes there were worries about how we’d pay for household expenses, especially when we had to borrow money for farming. But it was manageable.” “There was a water source in the mountain, a forest […]
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Thailand
Chad, Thailand: " The trees will produce fruit and it will give my family some income"
Chad lives in Northern Thailand, where he makes a living by farming rice and maize. He has also recently introduced longan, lychee and pineapple to his plot. As a farmer, he and his family struggle with the threats introduced by climate change. “Since my family makes a living through farm cultivation every year, we are […]
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Thailand
Jonah, Thailand: “I now see unity in the church and the community."
Jonah is 50 years old and a church leader in the watershed community of Mae Na Wang. He has been serving in his church for over twenty years, starting after his father passed away. He and his wife, Ya-na, have raised four sons and two daughters together. In addition to serving at church, Jonah and […]
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Thailand
Nakon, Thailand: "My mission is to make the soil more fertile"
Education is a widespread concern of parents all over the world. This includes Northern Thailand, where many Plant With Purpose members are challenged by insufficient agricultural practices and tenuous rights to land. Plant With Purpose works with parents like Nakon to improve the crop yields of the Thailand farmer and the health of their land. […]
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Thailand
Nala Jakor: "Working with tree seedlings helps me build intimacy with God"
"I believe that everything has its own time and that life has seasons of high and low," begins Nala Jakor. Farmers who work closely with the land are perhaps the most familiar with the seasonality of life. Nala Jakor and her husband Nakorn have endured several drastic ups and downs. The two of them are […]
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Environmental Restoration, Thailand
The Early Stages: Hearing from some of our newest Purpose Groups in Thailand
We love to share stories of transformation. Of course, transformation is a process. When you invest in our programs, the most exciting results become apparent years down the line. However, there are some changes that can be noticed fairly early on. While a newly planted tree will still be quite small a few months down […]
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About Our Work, Mexico, Resources, Thailand
Unpacking the Top Causes of Global Poverty
Poverty is a global problem that affects billions of people. The ways that different organizations, countries, and institutions define poverty may vary, but in 2023, an estimated 689 million people live on less than $1.90 per day. Most people have some basic consciousness around the challenges of poverty, even though public perception is often tainted […]
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Environmental Restoration, Thailand, Updates
The Graduation of HoiLu
In the HoiLu Watershed of Northern Thailand and there's a buzz. People are dancing, dressed up, lining up to go celebrate. This whole area is about to graduate. But what does that even mean? Plant With Purpose works in places where environmental challenges and poverty cross paths creating a cycle of despair. For a long […]
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About Our Work, Thailand
Insights from a Purpose Group savings meeting
Recently, members of our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team had the chance to visit our Thailand programs to celebrate the graduation of the HoiLu watershed. For some of our newer team members, it was a first visit. Our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Analyst, Emilie Jackson, had a chance to sit in on a group savings […]
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Living Sustainably, Thailand
Meepu: "I have already seen the difference after planting fruit trees and bamboo."
Meepu, mother and spouse to six children, is a farmer and cook in the MaeTaChang Watershed of Thailand. She felt hopeless because of how expensive and unsuccessful her plant's growth was due to old monoculture farming techniques. She tried countless experiments cultivating different seeds that all died due to lack of knowledge of how to […]
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Environmental Restoration, Thailand
Seeding Change
Planting trees and helping farmers grow more crops is part of Plant With Purpose’s core work, but these activities depend on the health and availability of seeds. Right now, the global seed supply faces a number of problems. There is currently a lack of access to diverse and locally adapted seed varieties. This is due […]
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About Our Work, blog, Burundi, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mexico, Our Response, Tanzania, Thailand
In the voices of our partners
One of the more complex nuances of working across different countries and cultures is storytelling and communication. When done poorly, organizations run several risks: from dehumanizing the people they seek to help to diminishing the role local actors play in advancing progress. In this post, CEO Scott Sabin shares how to allow our partners to […]
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About Our Work, blog, Burundi, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mexico, Tanzania, Thailand
LET THE LOCALS LEAD
While having country-based leadership in all of our programs is important, we take it a step further and the advantage of local leadership is undeniable. The importance of having local ownership over our mission and program activities has been emphasized at Plant With Purpose from the very beginning. Back in 1984, Plant With Purpose was […]
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About Our Work, blog, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Haiti, Sustainability, Tanzania, Thailand
The Value of Multilateral Partnerships
Plant With Purpose partners are autonomous but interdependent On the day that Plant With Purpose was established in 1984, two organizations were created as partners. Floresta International was founded in San Diego, California, and would later become known as Plant With Purpose. In the Dominican Republic, Floresta Incorporada was launched, where it continues working to […]
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All, Thailand
The danger of drought: How Thailand’s farmers are coping with an unending dry season
The rains aren’t coming when they should Weeks go by and Thailand moves further into what is supposed to be its rainy season. Except it hasn’t rained. The people still wait. Especially the farmers, for whom the arrival of rain is needed to feed their families and to bring in an income. This drought isn’t […]
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