Objective: To collaborate with the Green Belt Movement by assisting its expansion in the 17 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East where FXB operates by using project personnel and volunteers to plant trees.

Commitment: FXB commits to provide in-kind support and investment as needed to assist in the tree planting efforts of Nobel Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement. In support of GBM’s broader goals, FXB pledges to achieve carbon neutrality by mitigating the environmental costs of its organizational activity--such as travel, paper use, lighting, and heating--through tree planting.

Background: FXB’s vision is similar to that of the Green Belt Movement. We wish to create a society of people who work conscientiously for the continued improvement of the environment, and for a greener, cleaner world.

To that end, FXB’s mission is to mobilize community consciousness for self-determination, equity, improved livelihoods, securities, and environmental conservation, using tree planting as an entry point. We are guided by the values of volunteerism, love for environmental conservation, pro-action for self-betterment, accountability, transparency, and empowerment.

Partnership Opportunity: FXB continues its search for a firm to do a pro bono carbon audit of all organizational operations.

Update:
May 2006:
This commitment has proven challenging to implement, as its scope requires analysis and planning by FXB’s personnel in 17 disparate countries amid extreme geological differences. Nevertheless, FXB has contacted project leaders and asked them to begin to develop a feasible work plan. This plan will be discussed and finalized at a meeting with regional directors within the next few months.