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International Development

Economic development through value addition and vocational training.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Building independent communities through skills and capacity.

Sustainable Forestry

Offsetting our impact with replanting and sustainable practices..

Our Goals by 2025

1

Business Development

Build partnerships to advance market-based development solutions.

2

Sustainability

Plant 4,000 trees at Blackbird Tree Farm in Arua District, Uganda.

3

Skills training

Prototype Blackbird Deployable Workshop and high end furniture design

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Value Addition - 1

“You will always hear me talking about the importance of dignity. It is really the key to people’s lives, and obviously for me it relates back to the refugee camp, the lining up for food every day, the rationing. When we started primary school we used to study under a tree. We used to write on our thighs with a piece of dry, hard grass, and the teacher would come over and look at your thigh and write his mark with another piece of dry grass. You develop some sense of questioning, some sense of justice, saying, “Why do I live like this? Why should anybody live like this?”

-Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda