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<p>Tree Aid is an international development <a href="/facts/Non-governmental_organisation/qxQSsxsI">non-governmental organisation</a> which focuses on working with people in the <a href="/facts/Sahel/LEmEpoaR">Sahel</a> region in Africa to tackle poverty and the effects of climate change by growing trees, improving people's incomes, and restoring and protecting land. It is a registered charity in the UK. Tree Aid has offices in <a href="/facts/Ouagadougou/fa2Lcl8u">Ouagadougou</a>, <a href="/facts/Burkina_Faso/L3zPAJwx">Burkina Faso</a>, in <a href="/facts/Mali/sAaVqV1e">Mali</a>, in <a href="/facts/Ethiopia/LVujNp5v">Ethiopia</a>, in <a href="/facts/Ghana/IkUw32Ya">Ghana</a>, and in <a href="/facts/Bristol/nLwyoDTG">Bristol</a>, <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>. It currently has programmes running in <a href="/facts/Burkina_Faso/L3zPAJwx">Burkina Faso</a>, <a href="/facts/Ethiopia/LVujNp5v">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="/facts/Ghana/IkUw32Ya">Ghana</a>, <a href="/facts/Mali/sAaVqV1e">Mali</a> and <a href="/facts/Niger/hRbX6MkM">Niger</a>. Areas of Tree Aid's work include forest governance, natural resource management, food security and nutrition, and enterprise development. Tree Aid reported in their annual impact report 2019/20, that since 1987 it had grown 22 million trees, worked with 1.8 million people, and supported 36,350 people in enterprise groups. </p><p>Tree Aid's work growing trees, and restoring and protecting land is contributing to the <a href="/facts/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)/afvruJjo">Great Green Wall</a> Sahara and Sahel Initiative, which is an <a href="/facts/African_Union/Pz1DVnDN">African Union</a>-led movement of 21 countries with the ambition to grow 8,000 km of trees, spanning from <a href="/facts/Senegal/PPaRNYJH">Senegal</a> in the west to <a href="/facts/Djibouti/77jY0eII">Djibouti</a> in the east. </p><p>In 2017, Tree Aid partnered with the search engine <a href="/facts/Ecosia/3WkYaTPR">Ecosia</a>, on a project to support communities to restore land and plant trees along the <a href="/facts/Daka_River/ao98lxVI">Daka river</a> in <a href="/facts/Ghana/IkUw32Ya">Ghana</a>. </p>