Empowering women like Sara with your searches
2,071 views · Published 22 February 2018 · 1:11 · Indexed 25 September 2026
Channel: Ecosia · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees: https://www.ecosia.org/ Meet Sara, one of our tree heroes in Ethiopia. With the help of your searches on Ecosia, she is able to earn money and become financially independent. Sara is part of a women’s group that has decided to grow a forest in order to protect its community from desertification, soil erosion, and water scarcity. Forests, these women taught us, are political, a matter of war and peace: the lack of clean water and of fertile soil are a root cause of civil unrest – when resources are scarce, people tend to fight over them. Ecosia has partnered with Green Ethiopia, an eco-humanitarian NGO that has, for the past fifteen years, restored degraded landscapes by empowering local communities. "Before, I depended on my husband. Now I'm taking my fate into my own hands." - Sara, from Ethiopia. Every month we invest at least 80% of our surplus in tree planting projects all over the world. Make Ecosia your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web: https://info.ecosia.org/#install Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and many more. You can also download Ecosia on your mobile: https://ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog: blog.ecosia.org, on Instagram (@ecosia), on Facebook (@Ecosia) or by subscribing to our newsletter (http://ecosia.co/newsletter).
