How it Works

1. Send us yer dough.

$19.95 plants a mvule tree on behalf of that person in your life who already has everything. (That’s actually cheap for a “Christmas” tree these days, and ours are actually alive and growing!)

2. We send you a groovy card.

Enclosed in that card are two other groovy things:

• A groovy ornament-ish thing that can be hung on a tree or on a rearview mirror. On that ornament will be your tree registration number, which you can use to follow your tree online!
• A groovy DVD that you can share with your friends, showing what it is that the Mvule Project is doing.

3. A tree is born.

A village, with the help of a Mvule Project engineer plants a tree and marks it with a Global Positioning System (GPS) for further monitoring. We are allowing up to 100 trees per village so we need the GPS to keep track of them.

4. A tree is monitored.

Periodically for a year (every month at first) we will return to the trees to monitor their status. We are pretty sharp, and we can tell if a tree is alive or dead, healthy or sick. Every live tree garners a payment . . . with each payment increasing, sometimes doubling, from the last one. You get the picture . . . the motivation to keep these trees alive is big, big, big!

5. A tree grows in Uganda.

If a mvule tree can make it through the harsh first year, it’s good to grow. You can now take pride in your mvule tree. At the end of a year, 100 living trees will mean more than $3000 for a village and their project. That’s good money for a village and that’s easy management for us.

6. A kid grows in Uganda.

Because of the economic seeds you’ve planted, Ugandan children will grow stronger physically, spiritually, and academically. And one day, their children will sit in the shade of your mvule tree.