Sustainability
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.
Sustainability
The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Environmental Stewardship
While some may think that faith and environmental stewardship have little to do with one another, others may also believe that Christians aren’t interested in protecting the planet, or that environmental causes have little to benefit from the Christian faith. But what if Christians have something unique and powerful to offer the environment? And what […]
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About Our Work, blog, Environmental Restoration, Sustainability
Combating Desertification Through Strategic Tree Planting
Desertification, the degradation of fertile land into unproductive desert, is a pressing global challenge. It's driven by factors like overgrazing, deforestation, climate change, and unsustainable agricultural practices. However, strategic tree planting is a powerful tool to combat this crisis. By understanding the science behind desertification and implementing well-planned tree-planting initiatives, we can restore arid lands, […]
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Our Response, Sustainability
The Key Links Between Trees and Public Health
Public health encompasses a wide range of activities aimed at preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health through organized community efforts, and there is a link between trees and public health. The environment plays a crucial role in public health, influencing various determinants of health and the incidence of disease. Effective environmental […]
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DR Congo, Sustainability
A nurse, a teacher, and a mother: How communities in the DRC are holistically transformed
A core aspect of Plant With Purpose’s work is to find holistic solutions for change. We work in places where ordinary people face a myriad of challenges, but solutions are only sustainable and effective when we take into account the way they are connected to one another. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) demonstrates […]
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blog, Mexico, Sustainability
Checking in with the women of Plant With Purpose Mexico
"My way of thinking has changed a bit," begins Maricela Luisa, a Purpose Group member in Mexico. In our programs around Oaxaca, Puebla, and Chiapas, the work is as much about identity and purpose as it is about planting trees. For women in Mexico who have faced marginalization and poverty, this approach leads to some transformative […]
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Mexico, Sustainability
Concepción: "Our faith unites us as a community."
Concepcion is a participant in our program and is gaining faith and sustainability in Mexico! Hear from her here in her own words: "Nobody saved before. If suddenly we had a little bit of money, we spent it right away. Now we save our money, and we are all a little more careful in managing […]
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Mexico, Sustainability
Candida: "The pine needles benefit us artisans, and we can collect them without harm."
Before Plant With Purpose, I used to make tortillas kneeling down; which made my knees hurt. For water we used to go with the donkey to bring it out of a hole. My situation was difficult before I found Plant With Purpose. Once, I had a problem in my hand, one finger felt bad, I […]
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Sustainability, Tanzania
Resti: "I was able to diversify my income and secure a brighter future for my loved ones.”
Resti is a 52-year-old wife and mother of four from Tanzania. Resti used to be a smallholder engaged in Tanzania farming, who relied on agriculture and small business to make ends meet and pay for her children's education. One day, she heard about Plant With Purpose from their facilitator at a village meeting and church. […]
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About Our Work, Environmental Restoration, Photo Essays, Sustainability, Tanzania, Uncategorized
To Protect a Waterfall
Tanzania Purpose Groups engage the whole community to restore a community by protecting a waterfall and its water sources
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About Our Work, Environmental Restoration, Resources, Sustainability
Top 10 World-Changing Solutions to Poverty
The challenge of extreme poverty around the world isn’t new to most people. The images of suffering due to an inadequate access to resources and opportunity are familiar to most people. What gets significantly less attention, however, are all the numerous proven solutions to poverty available at our disposal. These solutions are interventions that have […]
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About Our Work, Academic, Sustainability
People are more than their problems
“Poverty is a condition,” our Mexico Country Director reminds us. “Not a characteristic.” For Luis, these words are not just a theory. They are a call to action, a cause to which he dedicated his life. His team’s efforts to help communities in three of Mexico’s poorest states happen alongside workshops focused on identity and […]
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All, Resources, Sustainability, Updates
How Black History paves the way for a more sustainable future
Being sustainability-minded typically comes with an orientation toward thinking about the future. After all, one of the ultimate goals of sustainability is to leave the planet better than one found it as a loving act toward future generations. So what role does history, specifically, Black history play in this? A significant role. In order to […]
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Living Sustainably, Resources, Sustainability
Greenwashing: Avoid Falling Prey to Deception While Trying to Do Good
Evidently, going green is good for business. Over the past five years, internet searches for sustainable goods have increased by 71%. As global concern heightens with images of Amazonian deforestation, ocean garbage patches, and the lived experience of increasingly erratic weather patterns, consumers are looking for avenues to lessen their role in the environmental devastation […]
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Environmental Restoration, Sustainability
Discover the Roots of Regenerative Agriculture in Indigenous Cultures
By Hannah Arledge While regenerative agriculture has created buzz in recent years, many ideas that seem innovative or groundbreaking often harken back to indigenous ways of stewarding the earth. Thousands of years of cultivation and local adaptations have shown us that best practices are centered around respect and mutuality. When we talk about regenerative agriculture, […]
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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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