The Alliance for International Reforestation, Inc. or AIR, is a non-profit organization working to make a difference for the people of Guatemala and Nicaragua. AIR plants trees, establishes tree nurseries, provides environmental education for teachers and farmers, digs wells, builds fuel-efficient brick ovens, and helps to educate everyone about the environmental challenges facing Central America. Since 1993, AIR has trained over 2,000 farmers, constructed over 750 fuel-efficient stoves, provided 18 high school scholarships to rural teenagers, established hundreds of tree nurseries and planted over 3.8 million trees! In June 2011, US volunteers joined residents AIR’s permanent staff and planted almost 4,000 trees and built seven fuel-efficient stoves—in just one month.
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In Memoriam: Our brother and friend, Jan Wilgers, found peace on September 5th, 2011 after a battle with cancer. As the husband and soulmate of Anne Hallum, Jan planted thousands of trees, built dozens of stoves, and designed and constructed much of the AIR Training Center in Guatemala. His life is an inspiration to all who knew him.
(photos credit: Jim Callahan and Anne Hallum) |
A team of very impressive graduate students from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) visited AIR-Guatemala and a couple of AIR projects in January 2012, under a long-standing grant from the U.S. State Department. They are studying reforestation "best practices," and will report to the US State Department in April. AIR is honored to be included in their research.
AIR is also 2011 Winner of the J. Sterling Morton Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation
AIR is one of only three Planting Partners with Eco-Libris
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Everything we do is funded by generous donors like you.
Alliance for International Reforestation (AIR)
1702 N. Woodland Blvd.
DeLand, FL 32720
(386) 738-7835
