Trees For Life
Trees for Life is a program implemented and administered by the Palestine Fair Trade association and in partnership and support of Canaan Fair Trade and our olive oil distributors around the world. The project plants thousands of olive trees in Palestine every year in the period between Tree Day (February 15) and Land Day (March 30). Beside its development aspect, this program helps connect the Palestinian farmers and producers in the fair trade movement in Palestine to the grassroots fair trade movement in Europe and North America in a meaningful way. It is a medium to connect the Palestinian grassroots to the solidarity they have worldwide. The Trees for Life project is solely funded by grassroots movements abroad and solely invested in the Palestinian fair trade movement in Palestine. This project helps offset the enormous destruction of trees by the Israeli occupation army in Palestine.
Trees for Life provide individual Palestinian farmers with 25 to 50 new olive tree seedlings (3 years old) to plant and nurture in order to renew their decimated groves. Allocations of trees is based on meeting the following conditions and according to the priorities bellow:
1- Applicant must be a certified member of the Palestine Fair Trade Association program for the production of olive oil. If a new farmer, applicant must demonstrate readiness to become fair trade certified and be willing to implement fair trade guidelines.
2- Applicant must own a land suitable for the number of trees applied for.
3- Applicant must demonstrate capacity to care for and nurture trees.
4- Applicant must be ready to prepare land for a collective tree plantation day that will be set for the specific village. All trees must be planted the day of delivery. Representatives of PFTA will deliver and distribute the trees and insure prompt planting. Farmers must have land ready and dug prior to delivery.
Priority will be given to the following applicants:
1- Small farmers
2- Young starter farmers that have inherited or acquired land.
3- Women that own their own land and are interested in farming.
4- Farmers that have lost trees due to the Israeli destructions.
Buyers of Canaan olive oil direct retail contribute to this program one dollar from each tin.
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When I received the spiritual vision for the Canaan Peace Plan, I had serious doubts Palestinians could even relate to the ancient name of their homeland. But it was the name my Father told me in spirit that is the rightful name of the Holy Land, the name of the land promised.
And so it came as a surprise to me to discover Palestinians do relate to the name "Canaan". They know it and like it. And I believe both the names "Palestine", a Romanized version of Phillistia, and "Israel" , the Jewish name, will be forsake in favor of the original name which was the name of that land for over 2000 years at the very minimum.
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