Potential Miracle Tree of Life & HHMV Plan

      The Moringa Tree. We call it the 'Miracle Tree of Life' because of it's amazing potential of fighting hunger in areas of extreme poverty. How? That's what we're studying more to find out.

      We've read the reports and studied others success. One such story from South Africa inspired us to take action. We tracked down and bought three of these Moringa Trees and began to plan our own reproduction of the Moringa trees and long-term plan for fighting malnutrition.

Read the inspiring article of Mavis Mathabatha
Tooseng, South Africa.

      These two excerpts taken from the Wikipedia article on Moringa oleifera give a great description of why these trees are a true super-food.

"One tablespoon of leaf powder provide 14% of the protein, 40% of the calcium, 23% of the iron and most of the vitamin A needs of a child aged one to three."

"A large number of reports on the nutritional qualities of Moringa now exist in both the scientific and the popular literature. It is commonly said that Moringa leaves contain more Vitamin A than carrots, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, more Vitamin C than oranges, and more potassium than bananas, and that the protein quality of Moringa leaves rivals that of milk and eggs."

      At his heart my voice we have a plan set up in phases to measure our success in this long-term, cost-effective project. Each Phase will require a level of success in order to move forward.

Phase One: Planting trees in small quantities to study and research the best practices for mass reproduction and maximize harvest yield. A bit of research has already been done by others and is available online, but we need to establish what practices in farming the Moringa trees we will be using. Also the research needs to be done to find the best practices for the different regions and climates we will be working in here in Kenya, and testing the success in these varying climates.

Phase Two: Research the successful harvest, powdering, and safe-storage of the Moringa powder for transport and supply reserves.

Phase Three: Fundraising the necessary donations and capital for maintaining long-term success.

Phase Four: Acquire land for mass planting and reproduction. To this end many acres of land have already been offered for this project. Some for as little as $50 per acre per year, and others for as much as $75 per month. This is good news as we can keep cost of production down.

Phase Five: Mass harvesting, packaging and storage of the Moringa powder. This project has the potential to make a big impact at a low cost.

Phase Six: Get the Moringa powder into the hands of the people who need it most. The slums, refugee camps, IDP camps, and especially the schools in these areas of extreme poverty. Just a few tablespoons added to a large pot of rice, ugali, or beans can add significant nutritional gain to the children in these schools.

Phase Seven: Establish and maintain a renewable success of the Moringa trees growth, reproduction, and elimination of excessive cost.

      We are excited and full of anticipation in this new venture. We are already well into Phase One, and will continue to report and keep this project up-to-date.

      If you would like to support this project's future or any of the other work we are doing here in Kenya, please consider donating today. There is a link specifically for donating towards this project via PayPal on our DONATE page.

 

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  Written By:
  Dave Richardson
  Executive Director and Co-Founder of HHMV
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