

Fruit Tree Growing Project — Supported by Alupro |
||||||||
|
||||||||
We’ve been incredibly lucky to be selected by Alupro, a not-for-profit organisation promoting aluminium recycling in the UK, to set up a fruit tree growing project in Nkhata Bay District. This will run alongside our existing reforestation project and, in simple terms, we will grow fruit trees in each of our 75 tree nurseries. We will also set up a fruit tree nursery at Mwaya where people can be trained in the art of budding and grafting, and we hope to establish it as a centre for “mother” trees in the Northern Region of Malawi. We will be developing a programme to produce improved orange, tangerine and grapefruit trees through the process of budding, and hybrid mango and improved avocado and guava trees through grafting. Other fruits, like pawpaw (papaya), will be grown from seed. The idea behind this project is that communities can generate an income from selling the trees. Income can also be generated from the sale of fruits in the future, and families will have their own trees to provide food for themselves. Work has already started on this project, and some of the first fruit trees will be planted out in January 2008. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
| The
more aluminium drinks cans and foil you
recycle in the UK, the more fruit trees will be grown! |
||||||||
Alupro
launched this project in London on 10 July 2007 and recruited Dr Charlotte
Uhlenbroek, the environmental film maker, to give 15 radio interviews
on the project in the morning. Then we had a very successful meeting
with the Alupro team, together with Dr Francis Moto, the Malawian High
Commissioner to the UK. Later in the afternoon, we went to the Houses
of Parliament for a photoshoot with Helen Southworth, MP for Warrington
South where the Novelis aluminium recycling plant is based. We’re
sure this will be a very successful and enjoyable working partnership. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
People are beginning to realise that we have to start looking after our planet — global warming and shortages of natural resources are high on the agenda. We believe that it's really important that everybody does their bit, so we thoroughly endorse the recycling of aluminium and other recyclable materials. Take a look at the Alupro website to find out more about this. |
||||||||
|
||||||||



![]() |
| Helen
Southworth, MP for Warrington South, |