Boots and Roots

 

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We establish plant nurseries in Mozambique where needed and in close collaboration with local farmers. We will create jobs, educate, work with entrepreneurship and fight poverty.

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About Boots and Roots

Helping Mozambicans

We in the industrialized global north, with our colonialism, our growth model and our consumption, have a huge responsibility for the sweating global south.
Our behavior makes life much harder for people – not least in Africa. We have good contacts with people in Mozambique. That’s where we want to fight climate change and poverty in the first place.

Planting trees

We want to plant many trees, preferably millions.
Trees can do a lot.
In particular, they can sequester CO2 bound as carbon in the wood of trees.
Trees also contribute vitamins and proteins to the Mozambican diet.
Mangoes, oranges, apples, nuts, even leaves can contribute significantly to the diet.
Trees also provide sustainable timber for construction.
Nine out of ten meals in Mozambique are cooked on a fire or charcoal, so right now wood is also vital energy.
Trees are an indispensable part of biodiversity and home to countless species of insects, birds, reptiles and mammals.
In 2025, we will complete the first project. A plant nursery that will be a model for future plant nurseries.

Create jobs

Six out of ten Mozambicans live in rural areas.
The vast majority live from hand to mouth.
With the plant nurseries, Boots Roots wants to create jobs at a wage that enables employees to save so they can lift themselves out of poverty and gain a perspective for themselves and their children.

Educate people

Boots Roots plant nurseries are not just about growing many kinds of trees and then planting them. Schools must be taken quite literally. Employees here also need to learn how to harvest more crops. They also need to learn about entrepreneurship and investment.
The day when the plant nursery has fulfilled its purpose and the area is planted with trees, the employees will be in a better place than when they were hired. We want to give them the knowledge to take action and transform their own lives.

Enlighten

Livaningo means enlightened and lighthouse in one of Mozambique’s major languages.
It is also the name of a 26-year-old NGO that works in many areas to help the most disadvantaged of the Mozambican population.
Livaningo is Boots Roots partner in the country.
It is together with them that we implement the projects.
We are very happy about this for two main reasons:
That we also work closely with Mozambicans, who of course know their needs and culture far better than we do, during the construction phase.
And that we can draw on all the knowledge of the organization’s 70 employees to help sustainably and effectively.

We will contribute to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

1: No poverty

We work to reduce poverty in Mozambique by creating jobs, educating locals and supporting entrepreneurship, improving living standards and economic opportunities.

2: Stop hunger

We help fight hunger by planting fruit and nut trees that improve access to nutritious food and promote food security in local communities.

8: Decent jobs and economic growth

Our projects create sustainable jobs in agriculture and forestry, strengthening the local economy and giving people the opportunity for a decent income.

10: Less inequality

We work to reduce inequalities by including marginalized groups in our projects, ensuring fair wages and promoting equal opportunities for all.

13: Climate action

We contribute to climate change by planting trees that absorb CO2, improve soil quality and protect biodiversity, all of which counteract climate change.

15: Life on land

By promoting sustainable forestry and agriculture, we protect ecosystems, make degraded land fertile again and support biodiversity diversity.

17: Partnership for action

We strengthen cooperation between local and international partners to achieve our goals, to exchange knowledge and resources and ensure sustainable development in Mozambique.

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