• How does TIST work?

      TIST Farmers like Jeniffer Kithure are successfully counteracting the devastating effects of deforestation, erosion, famine, droughts and floods through an innovative solution: planting millions of trees.

    • Benefits of Planting Trees

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    • TIST Benefits

      The TIST Program provides numerous types of benefits across a range of operational areas. These benefits are created by a broad diversity of people in different climates and conditions. Because the TIST Program is voluntary, benefits are not evenly distributed; rather, they are created and accessed at the discretion of each TIST member.

    • Here is a partial list of benefits created from trees, the Small Group structure and TIST project management:

    • Benefits of Trees

      Trees provide shade from the hot tropical sun, cooling homes and allowing grass for cows to grow

      Trees along streams or rivers clean and retain the water and protect the banks

      Trees provide a windbreak that keeps the laundry on the line, and the roof on the house

      Trees provide firewood for the family without long and dangerous walks to a forest

      Trees prevent erosion on steep or hilly areas

      Trees provide medicines from the bark

      Trees provide fruit to eat and to sell

      Trees provide fodder that keep cattle alive during drought

      Trees provide food and shelter for bees that make honey to eat and to sell

      Trees provide fertilizer for the farm and garden

    • Benefits of Small Groups

      Opportunities to work together on a joint project

      Opportunities to learn together about health, or farming, or food

      Opportunities for leadership experience and growth

      Opportunities to discuss ways to improve farms

      Opportunities to work together to implement improved farming practices

      Opportunities to develop best practices and share them with others

      Opportunities to make joint financial decisions

      Opportunities to support each other in times of need

    • Benefits of TIST's Approach to Project Management

      Opportunities to learn from each other and gather information they need in Seminars

      Opportunities to develop local organizational approaches

      Opportunities to "Go and Do" with energy and without hindrance

      Opportunities to learn and use group facilitation skills

      Opportunities to learn technical and administrative skills

      Opportunities to travel, teach and encourage other TIST farmers

      Opportunities to measure results and assure quality

    • TIST benefits farmers, communities, and the planet!

      TIST Benefits & United Nations SDGs

      TIST touches on all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

      Discover the impact of the TIST Program and how it works

      TIST Participants Learn Together

      Go to the TIST Training Information

      Get info on TIST operations, health, HIV and management

    • See the real benefits of TIST in our in-country newsletters written by participants!

    • TIST Stories

      Real life stories from TIST Farmers who are transforming their lives, ensuring better futures for their children and improving local communities by planting trees.

     

    4 countries, 131,000+ farmers, 23,845,000+ trees alive... and counting!

     

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