FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED
4747 Morena Blv Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92117 www.plantwithpurpose.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Plant With Purpose, a Christian development organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. For more than 30 years, Plant With Purpose has been a leader in linking international community development and environmental solutions, working with family farmers in strategic areas where environmental degradation and poverty intersect. Plant With Purpose currently works in Burundi, Congo, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mexico, Tanzania, and Thailand, employing an integrated methodology that combines environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal. Activities include watershed restoration, reforestation, sustainable agriculture training, savings-and-loan groups, local leadership development, and supporting outreach efforts of local churches.

Plant With Purpose is a Christian development organization that transforms lives in rural areas around the world where poverty and environmental degradation intersect. We equip impoverished farming families to change their circumstances, provide for their children, and live with God-given hope and dignity. We do this through sustainable agriculture training, environmental restoration, savings-led micro-finance, church mobilization, and local leadership development.

HAITI - Plant With Purpose Haiti continues to empower farming families to restore severely degraded land through sustainable farming techniques and reforestation. Farmers also reach beyond the immediate needs of their families as they lead the way in local conservation efforts. Community members are shifting the way they use their land to improve their own quality of life while also protecting vulnerable habitats. These undertakings inspire neighbors to act and provide an example to our international family.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - In fiscal year 2020, partnering families in the Dominican Republic planted over 1.3 million trees. While the border region between the Dominican Republic and Haiti still holds one of the highest poverty rates in the Caribbean, Plant With Purpose communities are transforming their land and their lives. Our team leaders in the Dominican Republic recognize the importance of empowering the next generation and partnered with local schools this past year to engage the youth in conservation efforts. Encouraging scientific inquiry, the team performs basic participatory biodiversity assessments with local schools, encouraging the youth to understand and take ownership of the land around them.

TANZANIA - Plant With Purpose Tanzania families are planting over 10 times the number of trees that nonpartnering families plant, and benefitting from 38 percent higher crop yields. In the past 15 years, partnering families have planted over 12 million trees, which are healing streams and increasing water availability in their communities. Through 245 church partnerships and a Bible-based curriculum called Redemptive Agriculture, we are truly seeing transformation take root. As partnering farmers and staff members face the threat of COVID-19, they turn to God for comfort and strength. Country Director Richard Mhina shares: "The good news is that there is hope in trusting God, Creator of Heaven and Earth (John 16:33, John 14:2)."

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