Help forests and communities grow together with GIERI

Your gift supports local people restoring forests, strengthening food security, protecting health, and building the conditions for lasting peace.

Make a donation:

A donation of $10 plants 50 trees by Local Community-led programs

Turn your generosity into practical action.

Choose a gift amount to see the tree-planting equivalent. Donations support GIERI’s wider community programs, including restoration, livelihoods, food security, health, and youth participation.

Local leadership.
Programs are shaped with communities in South Kivu.

One mission, connected outcomes

GIERI

GIERI—Groupe d’Intervention pour l’Encadrement et la Réhabilitation Intégrale—is a registered nonprofit organization working directly with communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Restore forests

Plant trees, conserve community forests, and help protect the Congo Basin’s extraordinary natural resources.

Strengthen livelihoods

Support locally led agriculture, fisheries, food production, and practical pathways out of poverty.

Equip people

Engage youth and women in tree campaigns, environmental stewardship, and community development.

Build resilience

Support vulnerable households, health centers, orphans, and communities affected by conflict or disaster.

Shabunda: Les Forêts de la Paix

Protecting a living forest while improving everyday life.

In the Shabunda region, GIERI works with local leadership and partners to connect forest conservation with nutrition, sanitation, education, community services, and economic opportunity.

Les Forêts de la Paix—Forests for Peace—expresses a simple idea: care for the land can help create the social and economic conditions in which peace can endure.

Explore the Shabunda project

Rooted in the community

Local experience. Long-term commitment.

Founded on 25 February 1997 in Uvira, South Kivu, GIERI applies community-participation principles inspired by Landcare. Its mission is to advance community development, environmental protection, poverty alleviation, youth reintegration, and peacebuilding.

Registered and approved as a nonprofit organization in the DRC
Offices in Uvira, Bukavu, and Kinshasa
Experience in community restoration and environmental project management

A healthier forest. A stronger community.