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The Mirema Community Forest Association (CFA) in Migori County, Kenya, is hailed for its successful reforestation initiative that regenerated the Mirema Forest. Five years ago the 810-hectare (2,000 acre) site was bereft of trees due to extensive logging. Today the rural community in Kenya has regenerated 50 percent of their forest by planting at least 300,000 trees. Edwin Ouma, a member of the Mirema CFA, says the main aim of the community reforestation drive was to protect the community FROM floods that would inundate nearby farmland and homes after long rains swelled the local streams. I have firsthand experience of what deforestation can do, Susan Aluoch, another `member` of the Mirema CFA says. I have been a victim of floods, drought and hunger. As a mother, I know the pain it can cause. The success of the reforestation drive attracted the attention of the county government, the national government, international aid group World Vision International, and a local bank that now provides financial support for the initiative. The Kenya Forest Service says it expects the entire 810 hectares of the Mirema Forest to be restored by 2027.
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