- Welcome to Rusinga -
Greening Rusinga Island Initiative
About Us
The implementing Organization, Badilisha is a Non Proofit Organization that was initiated
in the year 2010. Badilisha has a long history with nature based activities. It has
acted as a regional hub for permaculture training, Resources center demonstration,
outreaches with contact farmers. Besides this, our organization is the driving
force behind the Rusinga hills restoration initiative, a project we started a
few years ago to try and bring back the Islands' past glory
Our Approach
Natural Regeneration + Agroforestry + Livelihood Development+
Permaculture
Our Projects
Books for Trees
We
have partnered with BOOKS FOR TREES
organization to set up a travelling library for schools with interest in our
restoration work. The travelling library has books with nature based topics as
well as books which are being used in the current Ministry of education
syllabus
Transitioning Villages to Agoforestry
One of the best ways to get more trees is to ask everyone to plant some. This project helps villages in Rusinga Island community to transition to Agroforestry by distributing seedlings to the people who need it most and by providing sustainable agricultural practices including permaculture so that the trees can boost agriculture yield and food production
Forest Protection
Due to constant destruction of the indigenous trees on the hills by the community, Protection Patrols of hills by our volunteer forest guards was the only possible strategy to employ. This was after massive awareness campaigns and community
Our Language is
Agroforestry and Permaculture
Way Forward
THE ROAD AHEAD
Moving
forward, we see a lot of focus on thorough research work on valuable trees like
sandal wood { osyris leunselata } and others which have economic and environmental benefits. Also there will
be need to look into Ligongo hills natural
regeneration initiative penetrating the carbon market and think about natural
capital to enable our people to exhaustively benefit from various ecosystem
based services