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Malawi is the poorest country in Sub-Saharan Africa. People suffer from malnutrition and disease. Women and children (usually girls) must walk as many as 25 km several days each week to fetch wood for cooking, since so many of the trees have been cut down. This deforestation creates a serious environmental and hunger crisis. Women must leave their fields or gardens to gather wood which takes time away from feeding their families. Girls cannot go to school because of their job to gather wood, and 12- to 13-year-old girls are vulnerable to being pulled into sexual service for money, which spreads HIV. OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL facilitates development in six Malawian communities where people are planting new acacia trees—an effort primarily led by women. Native acacia trees have a broad impact on food security for hundreds of families in each community. More than 50,000 trees have already been planted.
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$28 - Five seedlings
$110 - Twenty seedlings
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