Timberland+Trees+in+Nepal

Welcome to my first Wiki
I thought it would be fun to make one and show you pictures of the trees in Nepal. But first I should give a little background.

As I mentioned in my introduction, I am a big fan of FaceBook. I was rather suspicious of all the apps I was being invited to but accepted one which said it helped plant trees. I was housebound at the time following an operation on my back and so spent quite a lot of time planting virtual trees. I quickly became friends with other planters around the world and have actually met some of them in person (from the UK, Turkey, Finland and Australia).

When the app reached the deadline I attended an online meeting with the CEO of Timberland who were sponsoring the app. They agreed to plant 2 million real trees. I remember asking whether we planters could have some say in where these trees were planted and Jeff Schwartz said he would look at proposals. Now comes the amazing bit. As chance would have it, I was teaching business writing to six people who worked at the WWF in Nepal. I mentioned the FB app to them and asked them if they could come up with a proposal for a reforestation project in Nepal - a perfect combination of classwork and a real purpose. We sent the proposal to Timberland and they agreed to plant 500,000. This happened in March 2009 just when I was leaving Nepal for Jordan.

I was rather sceptical about it but I have kept in touch with my WWF students and visited them this August. Imagine my joy to visit the two forests which are making such a difference in Nepal. Nepal is such a beautiful country and I miss it so much.

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