In Minyalala village, climate change has devastated once-fertile soil, impacting the 9,000-strong community’s ability to grow food and earn income. Malamaine Badiane, a Senegalese Exchange Volunteer in Kenya, led the Minyalala Green project, aimed at tackling these challenges within his community during his one year of service. The project includes establishing a fruit tree nursery for apple, mango, yellow passion fruit, and pawpaw trees, training farmers in sustainable land management, and constructing a check dam to manage water resources.
The community contributed KES 185,650 in cash and kind towards the project.
The tree nursery has 310 ready avocado seedlings, 2,000 avocado seeds have been planted and the community is targeting 8,000 tree seedlings by the end of 2024.
Constructed a check dam benefitting 9,000 people and reduced the distance of accessing water from 3 km to 0.5m.
The community has ventured into chicken farming from the proceeds of tree seedling sale.
