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Just back from Costa Rica and I will post a bit on this fantastic trip in the weeks to come. The nature and beauty of this country and its people is having a profound impact on my views on how we can assist in either regenerative farming, reforestation or simply protect what is still there. The first part of my trip I visted Osa Conservation campus on the Osa penninsula and the Corcovado parque. I met several very inspiring people on the Campus. Yvonne Kemp took me around and she explained all about the camera traps they are putting all over the corridor they want to create between Corcovado National Parc and L’Amistad. We have discussed the option to position several camera traps for a period of 1-2 years on the forest we have, to study and see what is out there. I am very exited about this all and to see for myself what important and crucial work Osa Conservation is doing here. #joy #forest #reforestation #Costarica

⚡I am young & hungry for #change, so I have developed a compulsion to #create things, as if I am in desperate search of a missing piece to unlock a puzzle and the clock is ticking. I found a time capsule of lost words. I wrote about Wagagai ltd's open day & health fair. 🔺It’s not one reason, but a chorus of thoughts and feelings that grew louder over the years as I reflected, #researched, and talked with friends and strangers about the healthcare grievances of impoverished #fishing villages. 🔺How is your day going by-the-way? 🔺Did anyone attend Wagagai ltd's open day & health fair? 🔺After 3 years of nurturing my medical #skills, I’ve discovered plenty of things that do work like #magic but the most important of ALL is showing up. ⚡Just show up. 🔺Showing up isn’t a silver bullet. It’s not an easy #win. It’s not a lifehack. It’s not a shortcut. But it’s the only way to #build anything. 🔺I showed up for my Kasenyi-Nkumba fishing villages on Wagagai ltd's open day & health fair. We snacked & left no crumbs. Joseph Balondemu showed up. Kabbale Patrick showed up. Timothy Alinaitwe showed up. ⚡Most of the attention was on #patients. ⚡I would say; anything else was a distraction. Wagagai ltd treats4kalangala Aishah Nantumbwe East Africa Philanthropy Network-EAPN African Philanthropy Forum Change the Game Academy Kabbale Patrick Timothy Alinaitwe Joseph Balondemu Robyn WHITTAKER Olav Boenders Bridging Gaps UNA UGANDA African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) AMREF #startups #upliftforSocialGood #management #futurism #nonprofits #sustainability

What a great Health Fair and Open day it was ........ Pictures sometimes speak louder then words. Hope to see you next year again. #people #health #Africa #Uganda #fun

Quite some people love the idea of the 105 ha of prime forest we have bought in Costa Rica. We bought it simply to protect it ……. It just happened. No master plan….. The below link shows beautifully why it is so critical to protect existing prime forests, but also to reforest and or work with regenerative farm systems. Osa Conservation is doing fantastic work in this area with over 70 staff. We hope that our land can be a minor part in the puzzle to create this critical needed corridor, described in the video. When we bought the land, we did not know about the existence of the Osa organization, meantime their objectives 100% resonate with ours.

Special greetings from #Kibale National Park, the Primate Capital of the World. Yesterday was #InternationalPrimateDay, a day to raise awareness about the importance of primate conservation, welfare, and research. Learn more about CRFF's approach to strengthening Uganda’s Kibale Forest boundary zone so wildlife and people can thrive by reading this interview with our board member GEORGE OWOYESIGIRE explaining the need for a multi-pronged, integrated approach towards #conservation, ranging from raising awareness and education of local communities and engaging them in conservation to promoting agroforestry and eco-tourism. #WildlifeConservation #primates #reforestation #agroforestry #Uganda Martijn Harlaar, Rushongoka Wa-Mpiira, Turaco Treetops, Matoke Tours Africa DMC, XSML Capital, Wagagai ltd, Olav Boenders, Jane Goodall Institute UG https://lnkd.in/gvppA2zK

Since 2014 we have been giving out more then 15,000 fruit trees to the local community for free and we have shared various posts on this in the past.   Last year we started getting requests from the local community to provide specific grafted fruit trees with higher productive and less susceptible varieties. We therefore now have started training some of our staff, so we will be able to do the grafting at Wagagai itself. This is not in anyway our core business and is a small project where we see great potential to re-green and re-forest the peninsula Wagagai is located. This all in a way that suits the local community as well.   When handing out the fruit trees in future we will also add our own compost and biochar mixture with every tree we hand out. We have now started to produce compost and the first Biochar at Wagagai as well. The idea in the end is a total closed and circular stream of all our green waste that we have at Wagagai, which is around 15,000 m3 per year. On the composting itself and the Biochar project we will share more details at a later stage.   All in all, it is just very exiting to be working on small projects like this. We truly believe that these projects can make a difference and hopefully will inspire others as well to think in a more circular way.   Our green waste can create a lot of added value for the communities around us, in combination with higher quality grafted fruit trees, we can make another exiting step forward in our drive to reduce our footprint in a truly innovative and  sustainable way.   Are we climate neutral?   No, meantime we are doing everything we can to reduce our CO2 footprint step by step and composting and making biochar of our green waste will reduce our footprint again with a great step.   In the end we will always have some CO2 footprint, meantime we hope to off-set that with the project we are developing with Chris Roberts Forest Foundation and the KfW DEG More up-dates will follow surely on this project. #planet #people #profit #Uganda #Wagagai #innovative #circular

Please you are humbly invited.

Hereby we would like to invite everybody to our Annual Wagagai Open day and Health Fair at the Wagagai Sportsground on 31st of August. Below flier provides all info required. We are very much looking forward to create again a wonderful day for the local community and everybody else that is interested the topics mentioned on the flier. Hope to see you on 31st of August! #Health #People #Africa #Uganda #Wagagai #Joy #Happy

Hereby we would like to invite everybody to our Annual Wagagai Open day and Health Fair at the Wagagai Sportsground on 31st of August. Below flier provides all info required. We are very much looking forward to create again a wonderful day for the local community and everybody else that is interested the topics mentioned on the flier. Hope to see you on 31st of August! #Health #People #Africa #Uganda #Wagagai #Joy #Happy