Over the past 4 years, Conscious Impact has partnered with over 100 farmers to plant more than 15,000 trees. 

Our annual monsoon tree planting program supports farmers with technical training, onsite analysis, labor and materials to help farmers grow high value fruit trees like coffee. 

This year, our goal is to plant another 3,000 coffee trees. 

As a country Nepal is on lockdown, yet our local community members are farmers and no matter the circumstances farmers are required to work. They plant and produce from their land tirelessly, like they’ve done for hundreds of years, to simply feed themselves and the world around them. 

Every year our monsoon season tree planting program has focused on partnering with local farmers (like Ambar & Sanu Kanchi Ranamagar, pictured below) to plant high-value market trees (like coffee, citrus, and more) to help farmers gain more income for their families. 

This is the work we need your help to continue.

Like so many organizations, businesses, and people right now, Conscious Impact is facing the effects and hardships of COVID-19. Conscious Impact’s work relies primarily on new volunteer participant fundraising and donations, accounting for more than 90% of our annual revenue. COVID-19 has stopped all international travel to Nepal, thus eliminating most of our income to continue the long-term, sustainable, resilient-building development work in rural Sindhupalchok.

Each donation of $5 "adopts" one coffee tree in Nepal for life. That means digging the hole, carrying compost, planting the tree and providing the initial care. It also includes follow up consultations and support from our Nepali team and international volunteers.

Every tree, when mature, produces 10 kg of red cherry equivalent to 10 USD in annual income to a local farmer. We support farmers to plant 50-100 trees, which provides an additional 500-1000 USD annually (nearly doubling many local families' annual income). 

$5 Donation = Adopts 1 Tree 

$25 = Adopt 5 Trees 

$50 = Adopt 10 Trees

$100 = Adopt 20 Trees

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$500 = Adopt 100 Trees or a Local Farm

(supports a farmer to increase their annual income by $500-1000)

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I know that right now is a difficult time for people all across the world. COVID-19 has changed all of our lives, and many of us are suffering. I truly hope that you and your family are healthy and well during this time. If you are not in a position to donate, I completely understand. If you can help share this campaign and work with others, that is also helpful.  

Every donation helps, just $25-$50 can plant and care for 5-10 trees with a farmer like Radha Mishra (pictured below). Radha has been farming her entire life, she and her husband, Nodanath, are some of the hardest workers we know. With the support of Conscious Impact, they have both been trained in coffee and citrus tree cultivation techniques and planted more than 100 trees on their land. These trees will not only provide them more income but also provide future generations of their family new options of livelihoods.

Additionally, every tree planted sequesters carbon, mitigates climate change, supports local ecology and rebuilds soil. Our goal is to plant more than 50,000 trees in the next 10 years to transform the environment and economy of the local area.

Why are we planting trees during COVID-19? 

For us, it is the work we can do right now while respecting nationwide lockdown and social distancing orders, but also this time more than ever is evidence of why our work to support farmers is necessary. 

Farmers like Goma Ama Kaphle (pictured below) are the reason we continue this work. Our goals are to support farmers to be self-sufficient and resilient through agricultural practices. More and more people are leaving farming practices because it does not provide secure or sustainable livelihoods for families. 

Farmers, our planet's producers, are constantly at risk to global challenges like COVID-19, climate change and more. 

Goma Ama has worked with Conscious Impact to plant over 250 coffee trees over the past 4 years. This year she began harvesting her first coffee cherries. Her trees, when mature, will provide more than 1200 USD additional annual income to her family for basic livelihood expenses. 

Kumary Bomjon, our local Agriculture Program Coordinator (shown in the above photo), sits happily among more than 50kgs of locally harvested coffee. Our goal is for coffee to become abundant in this region of the Himalayas so that local families can sustain their livelihoods without needing to leave to the cities or foreign countries for work. 

Coffee is a great cash crop, in addition to being great for the local environment. We love it and we hope you do to! Thank you for your support, and we look forward to the day when you too can taste locally harvested Takure coffee. :)