On Ben Henneke’s second visit to a small village in Tanzania, he was struck that there was no future tense in the Swahili language; circumstances were so dire there literally was no way to compose the words speak about the future. “You could not ask, ‘What will you do next year or when do you expect the rains to come?’” he noted. “I am trying to help you get into the reality of what you are working in. The women wanted to have trees again, and they want to have water that ran year-round instead of flash floods because of the deforestation.” In response to what he saw in Tanzania, Henneke started TIST, The International Small Group and Tree Planting Read More