We Are Neutral Invites You to Offset Your Environmental Impact by Helping Women Plant Trees in Haiti

Trees. In Haiti, they aren’t just trees; they are livelihoods. For you, they’re a meaningful way to reduce your toll on the environment. 

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — We Are Neutral is inviting the global community to participate in a meaningful initiative they’ve been working on in Haiti, a country where 98% of trees have been deforested, soil erosion threatens food production, and women endure the hardship of gender discrimination in their society.

We Are Neutral is a non-profit based out of Gainesville, FL that has helped partners meet their sustainability goals through ‘good doing’ carbon offset initiatives. Some partners include the University of Florida Gators and Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. In the past 7 years, We Are Neutral has planted over 25,000 longleaf pine trees in Florida restoring the original ecosystem, performed over 400 free energy retrofits for low-income renters, and now has community-improving, carbon mitigation projects in Puerto Rico and Haiti.

Their work in Haiti today is called “Fanm Kap Plante,” which means “Women Who Plant” in Haitian Creole; an effort that We Are Neutral has been working on for 4 years with Jane Wynne of Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve in Kenscoff, Haiti to help empower a group of one hundred women to help re-green their area. We Are Neutral is furthering this work, but now they want to give others an opportunity to participate that has a positive social and environmental impact through trees.

By planting mainly fruit and jimba trees, Fanm Kap Plante is a growing solution to the problems of soil erosion, discrimination, and deforestation in Haiti. The roots of trees stop erosion, the fruit trees are too valuable to be cut down for firewood, and the fruits provide food for women to eat and sell. Also, jimba trees regrow quickly enough, providing a continuous source of firewood for cooking. This is important considering Jane Wynne’s Reserve is constantly being threatened by people in need of firewood for income and fuel.

While helping women’s immediate needs, these trees help our global environment; your environment. Consider the fact that one mango tree absorbs 15 tons of carbon throughout its lifetime. Now consider the environmental impact of your everyday life. With this connection in mind, participating is a simple but influential way that anyone can make a positive environmental contribution since cooperation directly results in planting trees. Here are five ways that anyone can do that:

  1. You can buy unique, hand-made greeting cards or ceramic jewelry on their Etsy site. Meaningful gifts for the holidays! We Are Neutral will be selling greeting cards crafted with hand-made recycled paper by women in Haiti. They will also be selling ceramic jewelry, hand-made and donated by an American artist. To purchase these items on their Etsy site, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGivingPot
  2. You can buy a tree ($10)!  Buying a tree in honor of someone for the holidays is a great gift. We Are Neutral is accepting donations now till 12 AM on January 1st, 2015 online: http://goto.gg/18738.
  3. You can Text-To-Give. To donate $10 to buy a tree, text “GIVE 18738” to 80088 (Note that your donation will be made to the GlobalGiving Foundation – Plant 1,000 Trees To Help Women In Haiti. Charges will appear on your wireless bill, or be deducted from your prepaid balance. All purchases must be authorized by account holder. You must reply YES to confirmation message. Must be 18 years of age or have parental permission to participate. Text STOP to 80088 to STOP. Text HELP to 80088 for HELP. Message and data rates may apply.  Msg&Data rates may apply. Full Terms: mGive.org/T. Privacy Policy: goto.gg/privacy.)
  4. You can learn more and share their cause with your network. Please visit, http://www.weareneutral.com/women-who-plant/.
  5. You can “like” their Facebook page and their cause posts. Please visit, http://www.facebook.com/weareneutral

 

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