Restoration of the environment: More than 206,458 refugee are living in Kakuma refugee camp (many have been living there for more than 10 years) they are made up from 15 nationalities and more than 20 languages and dialects are spoken within the camp. 

A great number of these people (refugees) depend totally on the World Food Program (WFP) they are supported by a monthly distribution of food from three distribution centres within the camp. Due to the high number of people requiring assistance, which is limited, some do not receive their ration regularly. 

This situation is worsened if their ration card is lost or stolen and if this occurs the people have no food allowance until the card is replaced the following month. The World Food Program has managed to give ration cards to each refugee, and each family can get some type of grain every month (3 kg to 4 kg) and 1litre of cooking oil.
Farming and Health is a community-based organisation which uses Permaculture Design Principles and Design Directives to increase the resilience of the refugee residents in the Kakuma Camp. These interventions include, running several practical and useful courses, one of these is a Practical Treebog Workshop to introduce 

The Treebog to our fellow residents, the design of Syntropic Agroforestry Systems, as well as a Community Currency (Sarafu). We aim to help their situation by showing how the people can gain some level of autonomy by growing their own fresh food in Kakuma refugee camp, by taking responsibility for their own sanitation arrangements and by lowering their need for outside finance to survive well. 

We have more than 5,000 malnourished children and pregnant mothers in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Due to this, Farming and Health Education is looking to educate the residents in self-help methods to fill this gap in supply. 

Instead of waiting to be given food at the end of the month, we believe it is much better to plant a kitchen garden for the families while waiting for the monthly food distribution. We feel that instead of only giving food aid, and generating a population of ‘beneficiaries’ it is better to teach people how to become more self-reliant and to grow at least some of their food requirements

Reduce erosion: By planting many trees as possible we help stabilise the soil, to improve water quality and generate a useful biomass yield, by mulching and harvesting the seasonal rainwater in a densely planted topsoil layer.
Increase biodiversity and total yield, by creating Forest Gardens. Planting many different species of crop in multiple layers in one place – not creating monocultures. Providing habitat for birds and other animals.

Provide community education: By having many Treebog Workshops around the Camp – which now covers over 2 square miles we aim to enable people to become Treebog builders.
Improve food security: storing food that is grown, keeping seeds and organising seed exchanges.

Harvest and Improve water quality: Rainwater harvesting on Treebog roofs and the secondary use of washwater used in the Treebogs. Use of Treebog composting toilets reduce the possibility of both ground and surface water pollution with waterborne sewage.

Improve land management practices: by using our treebog compost we are transforming an organic ‘waste’ material into a useful ‘resource’.