Tabi Joda grew up in the forest, spending hours playing with his friends among the trees that lined the Mambila Plateau between Cameroon and Nigeria.

“The scale of deforestation was shocking. The land was bare, the water table low, wildlife had diminished, and invasive species had taken over.”

One Billion Trees for Africa is born from a multi-generational commitment to creating a sustainable path for local communities.

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A primary school teacher, Mr. Isaiah Mundi, loved gardening, planting trees, landscaping and livestock breeding. Before his retirement in 1998, he had planted over 20,000 trees in six local communities where he thought as a teacher and he reforested a dry land which had previously been degraded due to over grazing, logging and bush fires. His lesson inspired a generation of conservationist including Tabi Joda, whom later visited his former school and found out that the trees he had planted together with his school teacher had become a forest that made the environment green and beautiful. While growing up as a child, he had spent a lot of time planting, nurturing and harvesting tree products with his father. He then vowed to plant a billion more trees across Africa to realize the Great Green Wall.