Every month I buy a donation package or rather, I buy a donation package for each of the savings accounts I administer (i.e. my personal one, my company’s accounts, and the accounts of my two children). The donation package consists of two trees for me (more on that later!), two that are donated (to partner farmers or schools for instance) as well as a €1,5 each for water and school projects as well as a first contribution to start micro-credit banks.

What you see in the picture is a 10 000 liter water tank on the grounds of the Kaewa Secondary School (next door to the Utithini Primary School), winner of the Green Initiative Challenge (GIC; a joint collaboration of Better Globe Forestry, KenGen – the largest Kenyan electric power generating company – and Bamburi Cement Ltd.) in 2018. During my trip to Kenya in June of 2019, we visited this school, and it was without a doubt the greenest schoolyard I’ve ever seen!

The school has 465 pupils and around 160-170 of them are boarding at the school as well. So water is a necessity and water tanks such as this one (along with the gutters along the roof, to help collect rain during the monsoon), granted to the school as a part of the GIC, help make it possible for pupils to attend school.

This is part of what my donation package enables. Month after month. That makes me very keen to continue to buy donation packages on a monthly basis. Because I know the difference it makes!

Advent Calendar for 2019: sharing pictures and stories/reflections from my trip to Kenya in June. I went to visit “my trees” and get a hands-on experience of the social entrepreneurship of the Kenyan forestry company that I buy trees through.

Full disclosure: I am proud to say I am both a customer and an ambassador for the company. If you are curious to find out more, let me know and I’ll gladly get in touch with you! Here’s my sponsored link: https://betterglobe.com/27216