Tree planting for Enviroment conservation: The Sot-Uganda International works with rural communities, particularly women, to help them address their needs for essential basic services such as water, fertile soil, and a healthy ecosystem through planting trees on critical watersheds. SOT’s watershed-based approach follows our tried and tested 10-step tree planting approach, engaging communities to form groups, establish tree nurseries and plant seedlings on private farms, public lands, and in degraded forest watersheds. Tree planting on private lands provides community groups with fuel wood, food and sustainable livelihoods. Planting trees on public lands and mountain catchments helps to reduce environmental destruction - halting erosion through the retention of topsoil, harvesting of rainwater, and helps communities build their resilience to climate change.

Food Security and Water Harvesting: SOT has demonstration gardens and conducts training to encourage growing high nutrition crops and local food production. SOT provides training on the establishment of kitchen gardens, on producing a variety of resilient food crops, and on composting techniques. At the family level, helping communities to diversify their nutritional sources, which is especially useful during extreme weather conditions.

The sot-uganda internationa's watershed-based approach: “If you destroy the forest then the river will stop flowing, the rains will become irregular, the crops will fail and you will die of hunger and starvation.” Professor Wangari Maathai

SOT’s watershed-based approach ensures that our tree planting work is focused along critical river watersheds. It allows us to identify the most effective tree planting locations, which will maximize the benefits derived from each tree planted within a particular watershed.

Since 2009, SOT communities have planted over 15 million trees in Uganda, in watersheds in the highlands of Mt. ugandaa, the Aberdares, and the Mau Complex- three of the five major mountain ecosystems in ugandaya, as well as on private lands. SOTalso plants trees on public lands with institutions such as faith based groups, schools, and has a partnership with the Ugandan army to help access remote areas for planting and tree planting on army lands.