The Mission

The Moringa Tree Project is a sustainable approach to combating poverty, malnutrition, and environmental degradation. Trees purchased from local environmental youth clubs fund their education and provide social enterprise opportunities for rural women’s cooperatives. These nutrient-rich “miracle” trees’ fruits, leaves, and pods are used for food, cooking oil, cattle feed, and bio-fuel generating income for rural villagers.

The Need

Rural villages are struggling every day to combat a variety of societal issues, each of an integral component to the healthy growth of communities.  These issues include poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, land degradation, a lack of employment opportunities, and insufficient educational funding for vulnerable children.

The Miracle Tree

Moringa trees are: rich in vitamins A, C, calcium, iron & potassium; higher in protein than soybean meal; drought resistant; add nitrogen to soil; anti-bacterial; used for household water purification; and a source of edible oil, bio fuel, and cattle feed.

The Moringa tree contains:

• All the essential amino acids
• 4 times the Vitamin A of carrots
• 7 times the Vitamin C of oranges
• 4 times the calcium of milk
• 3 times the potassium of bananas
• 3 times the iron of spinach

“Few food sources in the plant or animal kingdoms come close to the benefits of the moringa oleifera plant. No wonder it is often referred to as the miracle tree, a savior of the African people.”
-  Joshua Machinga. Kenyan Project Director, Common Ground for Africa and Pathfinder Academy

For more information on the benefits of the Moringa tree, watch the video below and visit our  Sustainable Village Library .

How You Can Help

Donate  through Village Volunteers.

• $15 provides 15 tree seedlings to an orphan home to combat malnutrition
• $30 provides 30 trees to local schools for feeding programs
• $70 provides 40 trees and a bucket irrigation system for a women’s cooperative
• $100 provides 50 trees, garden tools, and a bucket irrigation system for a women’s cooperative
• $150 provides 50 moringa tree seeds and a rainwater catchment tank for the development of a moringa tree nursery
• $300 provides an oil press for a women’s group to begin extracting and selling moringa tree oil

Spread the word

Keep updated on our progress  on Facebook.

Volunteer Locally

Assist us with fundraising events or get your workplace involved through a matching program.  Contact us .

Volunteer Abroad

Join Village Volunteers  to work with local village Environmental Youth Action Corps (EYAC) groups and with women’s moringa cooperatives.

* As part of Village Volunteers’ sustainability policy, we plant 10 trees for every volunteer who goes through our international volunteer program to offset the carbon emission from the international flight.