Planting 15000 trees in Madagascar

Sometimes it can be as easy as putting two and two together. Or, in our case putting picture and picture together.

A few weeks back, preparing a presentation about Zahana at the Waldorf high school in Honolulu, we wanted to visually bring accross the impact of our reforestation program and show some new slides, they may not find on our website as well. We had just received the latest pictures from Madagascar via email: A visit to our villages from November 2014. Lucky for us, one of the November 2014 pictures was taken in an angle similar to a picture taken seven years earlier. We showed both pictures in time sequence and, to encourage audience participation, asked: “do you see any difference between the two pictures?” Fortunately, from the perspective of the presenter, one student answered immediately: "the trees!.

Sometimes it is as easy as putting two pictures together. You just may have to wait and let it grow for seven years to do it.

Markus

PS: And yes, as the end of the year nears it is this season again when we and everybody and their sister asks for your tax-deductible donation.If you are in a position to support Zahana again, please consider us for 2014. Thank you!

To sweeten the pie GlobalGiving has end-of-the-year campaign and we participate in it this year. To qualify for one of the cash prizes we need to raise at least $1,000 from 30 different donors. So if you would like to support our reforestation efforts in Madagascar still in 2014 please click on the "give now" button below. To make it even sweeter (or spice it up is you already had too much sugar), all recurring donations set up and the amount made for December is being matched (up to $200) by GlobalGiving. Recurring donations count for the end-of-the-year campaing.

Thank you very much.