Icebergs melt one drop at a time...

Welcome!  Last year I spent 6 months living and working in an area called "Boyo Division" in North-West Cameroon.  Whilst there I felt a unique opportunity to combine my passion for the environment with social development and subsequently founded the Belo Carbon Offsetting Program. 

Our aim is to raise awareness of the immediate and resolute urgency of taking action on the double effects climate change and developing-world poverty yet accept that as individuals we can often feel powerless to have any real impact on the world that so completely surrounds us. 

The Program allows those who are concerned with Climate Change and/or developing world poverty to donate fruit and agroforestry trees to poor families and community groups in Boyo Division.  The beauty behind this idea is that as the trees as raised and nurtured by the program recipients they receive free expert advice from our partners at the Centre for Initiatives in Rural Development and Agroforestry (CIRDAF) thus ensuring that as their trees grow they remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a key greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere.  Furthermore as the trees bear fruit the families are then provided with a sustainable source of food and income for many years to come, earning them valuable income from the market, allowing them to send their children to school or pay for better medical care and thus helping break the cycle of poverty that afflicts so many people in the area.

Never before in my life have I felt such an amazing feeling as that which you experience in giving, with such ease, the gift of life.

It is my hope that others may realise that through the cumulative actions of individuals we can all achieve great things.  Just like the swarm of tiny ants that is able to paralyse a horse,

Remember, "Icebergs melt one drop at a time"...


Martin Mark Jones, Project Founder

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