Dear
Friends,
Welcome to our second wonderfully shengena forest walk, after a highly flourishing in our previously event, Mohispac Foundation(charity organization ) is kindly inviting you to our next Shengena Forest walk campaign to be held on 26th May to 1st June 2014 at Same District in Kilimanjaro -Tanzania, Africa. The Shengena forest is the second largest forest in northern part of Tanzania after Kilimanjaro forest mountain and among of the few natural reserves still remained in Tanzania which is rich in numerous water springs, waterfalls, home to animals, reptiles and bird species rare in other parts of the world which needs protection implied to the promotion of both fauna and flora which attract many people to visit the forest and which supports the lives of more than 300,000 people.
Our route of walk will start from Chome-Suji, Suji-Bwambo, Bwambo-Kirangare, Kirangare-Vugwama, Vugwama-Mpinji, Mpinji-Mamba (means crocodiles), Mamba-Lugulu, Lugulu-Mtii, Mtii–Bombo where we will celebrate environmental day on 1st June 2014 at Bombo with about 10,000 indigenous people, CSO’s, volunteers, activists, journalists, Government officers, Students, Companies and other so many stakeholders to cross finger together with us in promoting sustainable development of our forest.
The event intends to advert Shengena biodiversity available and the way to protect it, promoting tourism attractions areas (peak of the mountain, sources of the streams, available species, etc), Pare cultures as an endorsement to conserve the forest, to launch 1 million trees planting campaign, to open student environmental clubs at their schools, to develop/promote awareness on forest carbon and the way it will benefit them if they will conserve the forest. The event will provides a platform for environmental stakeholders (walk participants/volunteers) and the local community to interact and promote awareness on the importance of protecting Shengena Forest, with the view of limiting the effects of drought and securing the endangered flora and fauna species in the forest.
Currently the forest is faced with a number of man-initiated threats. These includes forest fires, encroachment for agriculture, tree felling for wood fuel, over pastoralism within the forest, lumbering for building materials (logs, timbers) which suffocate indigenous species caused by gold mines activities taking place illegally within the forest, corruptions among the officers responsible . But now the forest, spring water, natural vegetation, species, wild animals are in danger to disappear due to the deforestation and Gold mines activities taking place within the forest. Therefore, the event intends to address man-initiated threats with the view of making a contribution in forest management, environmental education, researches, advocacy, stopping mines activities, restoring natural vegetation within and around the forest to improve their livelihood. Moral and financial support is highly need to enable this event to be accuracy thus why we are calling upon all environmental good wishers to join hands with us in saving the entirely forest, by either participating directly in our walk or enable/sponsor others to participate.
The participants will get likelihood to visits either Ngorongoro, Mikumi, Serengeti, Selous, Manyara national parks or Mount Kilimanjaro for less cost once you register in as a volunteers. We need food for the 200 walkers, drinking water, 3000 t-shirts, 5000 flyers, 20 banners, 50 tents, 50 mattresses, 2 digital camera, 2 laptops, 1 Mil tree seeds, 120 rollers of polythene tubes, 20 hoes, 20 spades, 20 wire mesh, 20 rakes, 3000 caps, 20 wheel barrows,1000 bees boxes for low income women) and other technical supports. The companies/sponsors who wish to benefit in our campaign through putting their logo/charters to all the equipments they will provide for the event, we will use their logo to all of our activities, during the press conferences and to other areas which can adverts him (This golden chance for the companies/organizations to advert their companies through this wonderfully historical event on how you can benefit, please email us to send to you our fully proposal).
Don’t delay to book and to invites your link/friends to join this historical event to come for less cost of $100 for meals, t-shirt and application fees e.t.c. The walk dubs “Stop silence to save Shengena forest for sustainable development.” Lastly but not least we thanks for our last event supporters (World Agroforestry Centre - Nairobi, Santas Diagonist Co. Ltd, Ngerengere river, Asasi ya kuhifadhi mazingira Kimang`a, Media companies, Journalists, Bloggers, individual supporters and so many others, really we have appreciated your adore in saving our heritage Shengena forest. (Please Google ICRAF visit Shengena forest) to see our last walk event report).
Finally this campaign project needs your kindly support to save most adversely species which are in danger to disappear, poor farmers and pastoralist at the remoteness areas who are already grappling with water which are now drying up due to the human threats in the forest, rivers and sources of water from the peak of Shengena forest. More than 300,000 people will continue to benefit from the forest if and only if we will get your social, economical, technical, legal and moral supports. Therefore, these initiatives should be seen as experiments along the route to fully sustainable partnerships between people and their government in the joint custodianship of forests that provide benefits at local and national levels - including biodiversity conservation.
We believe that Together We Can Make the World a Better Place to Live “We improve not only our lives but also the lives of our next generations.
Any support will be enormous pleased.
Thanks and be blessed for choosing to be part and parcel of this campaign.
Rev. Nziacharo Makenya,
Executive Director,
Mohispac Foundation,
B0x 77624 - Dar - Tanzania.
Call: +255716876742/758888193
Email: mmohispacf@yahoo.com
www.envaya.org/mof or www.mohispacfoundationtz.or.tz
SHENGENA FOREST WALK REPORT 2013
The campaign was launched during shengena forest walks held on 15th July 2013, where by Mohispac Foundation and ICRAF team comprising of staff from Nairobi, Kisumu,Tanzania, and local environmental groups around the forest.The event took part in the Shengena walk that happened in Mamba Miamba, Northern Tanzania.The campaign aimed to planting 100000 trees through their local environmental groups,student environmental club at their school surrounding and to the public areas and this charity walk event was aimed at sensitizing locals against destroying the vast Shengena forest which supports the livelihoods of more than 300,000 people.
According to a report by the World Wide Fund (WWF), for the past 50 years, about half of the world’s original forest cover has been lost owing to the unsystematic exploitation of forest resources by human beings and Shengena forest is no exception.
Rev. Nziacharo Makenya, the executive director of MOHISPAC foundation and the organizer of the walk says the woodland which plays host to five major rivers, Mkomazi game reserve and several irrigation schemes risks being wiped out if stringent and swift conservation measures are not adopted.
The event provided a platform for environmental stakeholders and the local community to interact and promote awareness on the importance of protecting Shengena Forest, with a view to limit the effects of drought and securing the endangered flora and fauna species in the forest.
The woodland which boasts of being the largest forest block in the South Pare Mountains is also rich in biodiversity and a major water tower in the region. However, it faces numerous threats. These include: gold and bauxite mining activities, farmland encroachment, wild fires, illegal logging among other human activities.
Rev. Makenya expressed optimism in the ongoing restoration activities and called on ICRAF and other relevant stakeholders to facilitate in the conservation initiatives by providing the groups with potting materials, knowledge on tree nursery establishment and forest management.We believe that together we can make the woeld a better place to live and we improve not only our lives but the lives of our next generation.We need support of 1000 $ to implement this campaign by establishing the nursery trees in this rain season of October,November and December while in march and april 2014 will be the right season to planting trees by taking it from the nursery to the planting areas incooperation with communities.
During the walk dubbed “Save Shengena forest”, The ICRAF team had the opportunity of visiting several conservation groups before presenting a donation of T-Shirts to the Mamba Miamba community.Only your kindly support of 1000 dollar can cover the cost of seed and polythene tubes.
Thanks and be bless to be part of this campaign
Rev Makenya
Mohispac Foundation
Executive Director
Email:mmohispacf@yahoo.com,
call +255716876742/758888193
Further more visit us at:www.mohispacfoundationtz.or.tz
www.envaya.org/mof,