Startup of plant nurseries in the five villages. Production of baskets with natural materials for the plant nurseries as a test. (Only 1 % of the plant nurseries use this material since we for now perform this is as a feasibility test. The other containers in the plant nurseries are made of normal plastic bags. Not the most sustainable material, which is why we try the natural materials.)
The cartography process to establish the boundaries of the land for each village started. We work with the method Participative mapping, meaning that maps are created together with the local villagers and thereafter outlined with GPS-points to create normal maps. This is important because it’s a first step to help the population get legal documentation of their land. At the end of April, the team in the DRC went to Inongo, the capital of the Mai-Ndombe Province, to hand in the documents necessary for getting the legal documentation of their land.
Startup with experiments with solar cooking in Kinshasa.
The multiplication fields for soy continues to grow.
United Eco Solutions buys a trailer to the tractor that is funded by our partner to help the population to transport goods from their villages to the river for further transport to markets.
Measurements of trees in the existing rainforest to determine the potential for carbon sequestration.
Retrieval of cacao seeds in a nearby village for testing in the plant nurseries.
