Plant With Purpose opens in Malawi with a big celebration

Plant With Purpose's newest country program has officially opened!

Last month, our newest partnering country program, Floresta in Malawi, launched with a program inauguration ceremony in Nkhata Bay. The links between environmental health and sustainable livelihoods in Malawi are so strong that working in the country's rural communities was an ideal fit for Plant With Purpose's model. Here are some compelling images from the Malawi launch opening ceremony.

Elizabeth Maneya, Country Director of our new Malawi program, symbolically plants one of the first Plant With Purpose trees in the country at our Malawi launch.

School children in Malawi brandish a sign declaring Healthy Watersheds Our Responsibility. Plant With Purpose will operate in Malawi using our signature watershed model, which leverages natural geography and community connections to optimize environmental restoration and human development.

Team members from Plant With Purpose and Floresta in Malawi meet at the Malawian Field Office in Nkhata Bay.

Plant With Purpose African Programs Officer Annah Amani and Vice President of International Programs Milmer Martinez-Vergara plant trees at the launch ceremony in Nkhata Bay.

Students participate in the Plant With Purpose Malawi launch ceremony with excitement. One outcome of Plant With Purpose's work is an increase in the rate of girls receiving education. Creating sustainable opportunities for the upcoming generation is an important goal for our partners.

Plant With Purpose CEO Scott Sabin participates in the Plant With Purpose Malawi launch ceremony, carrying a sign declaring Tree Planting Our Responsibility.

A community leader demonstrates Purpose Group savings activities using typical materials. Several groups have already launched and many more are forming.

Community members dance in celebration at the Plant With Purpose launch ceremony at Nkhata Bay.

Local media covers the launch of Plant With Purpose in Malawi; here interviewing the National Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, who participated in the ceremony.