27/07/2026
🌱🎉 FOUR YEARS, FOUR PLANTINGS – AND NOW IT'S HAPPENING! 🎉🌱
What a moment! Together with the Lower Baddibu Youths for Development, we've completed our fourth mangrove planting in Suwareh K***a – and we couldn't be prouder! 💚
And then the news we barely dared to hope for: the seedlings are growing FASTER than expected. We're now expecting the first self-produced offshoots as early as next year – much sooner than we ever imagined! 🌿✨
That means: the forest is beginning to reproduce itself. The first big cycle is closing – right before our eyes. What started four years ago as a tentative attempt is becoming a real, living ecosystem that will soon stand on its own!
And this is just the beginning of what this forest means for Suwareh K***a:
🌊 Coastal protection against erosion
🐟 New habitat for fish and wildlife
🌾 Desalinated rice fields – better harvests for local families
🍯 Beekeeping underway – honey for our school and new jobs for our youth!
🌍 A CO₂ store that can keep growing for decades to come.
Education. Nutrition. And now a self-sustaining ecosystem. The pieces of the puzzle are coming together – and we're right in the middle of it! 🧩💛
THANK YOU to every single one of you who makes this possible. Without you, not a single seedling would be standing here! 🙏🌱