Benefits - TIST Program | Growing trees, growing leaders | 110,000+ farmers planting 22,300,000+ living trees!

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.
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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.
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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
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TIST & UN SDGs
TIST Participants Learn Together
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TIST Intro Packet
See the real benefits of TIST in our in-country newsletters written by participants!
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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.
TIST Stories

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

Want to join TIST? Enter your email below and get started planting trees!

TIST Benefits

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

TIST Participants Learn Together

Go to the TIST Training Information

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.