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ClimateNE & Climate Change Schools Project support the move to a low-carbon, resilient economy and help businesses avoid risk and realise commercial opportunities. Posts by Jen Atkinson, Krista McKinzey and Harriet Thew » Today Joan and I are hopping on a local bus and heading into the heart of Rwanda to visit COPABU (Coopertive du Producteurs Artisans de Butare). This is the final organisation that we will visit during this evaluation trip and it sounds like they have really taken the training on board.
The group is the first to put into action the environmental training in particular. In April this year the cooperative planted 5,000 jacaranda and sederera trees in their community. The declining tree population is a great concern to this group as they rely on it to make an income. They specialise in wood carving and it is becoming increasingly difficult to source the raw materials.
So we are off to meet with Annonsiate Nyiramisage, the cooperative leader, to visit their tree nursery and record their story as a Shared Interest Foundation case study for others to learn from.
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