Employ to Plant · Socioeconomic Impact

Growers Livelihood Impact

Deforestation is tied to poverty. By partnering directly with local smallholders — paying fair wages to propagate, scan, plant and monitor trees — we turn environmental stewardship into a sustainable livelihood.

$14.50

Livelihood Wages Disbursed

Direct planter earnings: $1.50 per approved planting scan + $0.50 per periodic growth verification.

Active Community Planters

Unique registered growers dynamically verified in our SQLite databases via mobile QR submissions.

Household Lives Empowered

Calculated using the regional average average size of 5.5 household members supported per grower salary.

How Reforestation Funds Livelihoods

1. Sponsor Funding

Sponsors donate $3.00 per tree. This covers seed collection, seedling nurseries bag propagation, and high-quality weatherproof QR code tag sheet printing.

2. Planting scan & Geo-Tag

Local farmers plant seedling and scan its QR using the TreePassport Mobile App. Expo Location extracts high-precision coordinates, paying planters $1.50 per approved tree.

3. Long-term Verification

Planters return periodically to record height, verify health, and upload progress photos. For every verified log update, growers receive an additional $0.50.

Meet our Restoration Leaders

The dedicated agroforestry growers and community botanists nursing our forests and fields.

Restoration Science Lead

Dr. Sofia Almeida

📍 São Paulo, Brazil

Sofia sets the restoration science across our zones - species selection, survival methodology, and the QR-tag verification standard every planting must pass before it reaches the public registry.

Specialty: Tropical canopy restoration

"We measure the quality of trees grown, not just the quantity planted - that is what makes impact you can actually trust."

Field Operations Director

Liam O’Connor

📍 Dublin / global field network

Liam runs the on-the-ground network - recruiting, training and paying the local grower teams who plant, scan and monitor every tree across our restoration zones.

Specialty: Field operations & community wages

"Restoration only lasts when the communities doing the work earn a fair, lasting livelihood from it."

Monitoring & Verification Lead

Aiko Tanaka

📍 Tokyo / remote sensing hub

Aiko leads monitoring - combining field QR check-ins with satellite imagery and GIS to confirm survival, so donors can trust every passport in the registry.

Specialty: Remote sensing & QR verification

"Every verified scan, cross-checked from space, is a promise kept - to the donor and to the tree."

Nursery & Seedbank Coordinator

Mateo Rossi

📍 Valencia, Spain

Mateo coordinates the nursery and seedbank network that propagates drought-hardy, indigenous stock - supplying the seedlings local growers plant and earn from.

Specialty: Drought-hardy seedling propagation

"The right seedling, raised the right way, is where every resilient forest begins."

Community Botanist

Dr. Amara Okafor

📍 Lagos, Nigeria

Amara guides species and biodiversity strategy - prioritising native and medicinal trees that rebuild ecosystems while supporting community health and income.

Specialty: Native & medicinal species

"Native species restore more than carbon - they restore biodiversity, soil and local livelihoods together."

Women & Livelihoods

Women at the heart of restoration

Across our project zones, the majority of nursery propagation and growth-verification work is carried out by women — and because TreePassport pays per verified task rather than per season, that work converts directly into household income women control. Nursery collectives like Mary Nthenya's in Kitui supply our seedling stock; verification teams like Esther Wambui's keep every passport honest. The same M-PESA wallet that receives the planting wage pays the school fees.

60%+

of nursery & verification roles held by women

women in the Kitui nursery collective alone

Direct

M-PESA wages — no intermediaries