Environmental
Reforestation
Protection of the Environment is a must! We all know that these global issues impact all generations and future generations whether we take action or not. FTI is participating in this issue through reforestation. We are engaging persons with disabilities in this issue to protect mother earth. FTI and its partner organizations were taking measures to protect, enrich and preserve the Environment to take action. FTI believes that reforestation covers the natural life cycle of humans, wildlife, and forest. Through this program, persons with disabilities take care of tree planting from a seed or a tree until it is fully developed. FTI, its partners, and its beneficiaries are Environment conscious and well aware that mother earth must be protected by everyone at all costs, whatever your disability, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs.
Agro-Forestry
Agro-forestry program covers various training series on farming so that persons with disabilities are fully equipped with the knowledge to maximize the resources from the environment. FTI and its partners were helping hand in hand to achieve and maintain sustainable income from farming and forestry. Persons with disabilities are engaged in this intentional combination of Agriculture and forestry. The benefits of this journey are enhanced yields from staple food craps, enhanced farmer livelihood from income generation, increased biodiversity, and improved soil structure and health. Livestock is also raised and monitored by persons with disabilities. Cities from different areas in Leyte, such as Hindang, Leyte, and Agusan Del Sur, are raising livestock to provide commodities such as meats, eggs, and all available produce. The Group of persons with disabilities in the area are the one who is responsible and capable of managing this project to be able to maintain the business sustainability.
Sogod & Bontoc, Leyte, Project
FTI’s third environment protection-focused project started in January 2023. The reforestation, mangrove restoration, and communal gardening are managed by people with disabilities, organized by FTI into groups, for their employment and group livelihood. The project is supported by the municipal and village governments, technical agencies in agriculture, environment and social welfare, and education through local universities and schools. This project is located in the municipalities of Bontoc and Sogod, Leyte, a rural area devastated by super typhoon Rai (local name Odette) in 2021
Two similar environment and inclusion-focused projects have been ongoing in the municipalities of Sta. Fe Leyte and Hindang Leyte. A new project has also been started March 2023 in Tanay, Rizal province, which is near Metro Manila. All these projects are supported with funding grants from Germany-based Life-Giving Forest (LGF), also supported by SEZ Germany.
Tanay Rizal, Project
This is the first environment and inclusion-focused project of FTI and LGF in Luzon, Philippines. It is located in Barangay Cuyambay, Tanay Rizal, which lies directly northeast of Metro Manila. The program is focused on communal gardening and reforestation, also supported by the municipal and village governments, and will be managed by groups of people with disabilities.
There are five ongoing projects of FTI and LGF 2 in Mindanao (Agusan Del Sur and Cateel Davao Oriental) and 3 in Leyte (Sta Fe, Hindang, and Sogod, Bontoc)). The projects are focused on reforestation, agroforestry, mangrove restoration, and communal gardening; and organized to be owned and managed by persons with disabilities, organized as cooperatives or associations.
This project in Tanay, Rizal is implemented by the Foundation for Theseabled Persons Inc (FTI) and with funding grants from Life-Giving Forest (LGF), also supported by Repunzel Eine Welt Bio-Stiftung, Germany.
