The Rainforest Foundation provides financial support for practical projects run by local organisations and indigenous peoples' associations. These projects aim to secure forest peoples' rights and livelihoods, and to protect and sustainbly manage tropical rainforests.

We also provide help in identifying, developing and fundraising for projects, and helping local organisations to manage their work once they get started.

All the projects supported by the Rainforest Foundation aim to help local organisations in tropical countries become more indepedent and self-sustaining.

The Rainforest Foundation's project work is grouped into the following themes:

• › Cameroon
• › Colombia
• › Congo Basin Region
• › DR Congo
• › Gabon
• › Guyana
• › Indonesia
• › Madagascar
• › Peru
• › Republic of Congo
• › Uganda
• › Venezuela

Lessons in the classroom

Date: 12/03/2008

Classroom doors are opening for the first time to children struggling to get an education in the rainforests of Cameroon. RFUK has launched a pioneering project to help ‘Pygmy’ children overcome the barriers they face when going to school.