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Help the Green Belt Movement plant trees with the Size of Wales!

Green Belt Movement International is raising money for Green Belt Movement International
“Plant and protect an area the Size of Wales”

on 27 January 2012

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The Green Belt Movement (GBM) was founded by Wangari Maathai in 1977. It uses tree planting as an entry point for communities to take action on issues of land rights, environment and livelihoods. GBM works on climate change policy on forests on behalf of rural communities internationally.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial;">GBM has joined the <a title="Size of Wales" href="http://www.sizeofwales.org.uk/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0033cc;"><span style="color: #0033cc; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Size of Wales</span></span></span> </a>to help plant and protect 2 million hectares of tropical forest as part of a national and international response to climate change<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">!</span> GBM will support local communities living near Mount Kenya to plant 8,000 trees and we need your help to do it! For every dollar, euro or pound you donate, Size of Wales will match it! But only for the month of February.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Kenya</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial;">&rsquo;s forest cover is slowly diminishing and at just under 2%, is way below United Nations recommendation level of 10%. The Mathira district in Kenya, a beautiful catchment area on Mt Kenya, is particularly affected by deforestation and is considered one of the poorer constituencies in the country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Our target is to reach &pound;4,000 ($6,300) for this project, and the matched funding provided by Size of Wales will allow us to be&nbsp;<strong>twice </strong>as productive and plant twice as many trees!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 11.1pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial;">All the trees planted will contribute to GBM&rsquo;s <a title="I am Hummingbird Campaign" href="http://wangari.greenbeltmovement.org/hummingbird/">&lsquo;&lsquo;I am a hummingbird&rsquo;&rsquo;</a> campaign, which aims to plant 1 Billion trees to honour the memory of Professor Wangari Maathai.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Click below to register your donation, or </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Text 'WALE55 &pound;5' to 70070 to donate &pound;5, and help us to transform the lives of people in Africa.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p>

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£976.00
+ £72.50 Gift Aid
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