arboRise presents the film “Kamsé’s Perimeter” to fuel the discussion about reforestation projects.
In the context of climate change, the news is often depressing and there are many preconceived ideas:
- …about reforestation: it would not be sustainable, it would be greenwashing, it would harm local populations, etc.
- …about Africa as well: belief in the impossibility of setting up projects, negative prejudices about the African mentality, idealization of the African peasant, etc.
It is all the more important to talk about projects that work, to correct prejudices. This is why arboRise wanted to share “le périmètre de Kamsé“, a film by Olivier Zuchuat, a Swiss director from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, with the audience of La Ferme des Tilleul. This documentary film shows an image that is quite close to the reality that we also observe in Guinea. We see a form of popular uprising for reforestation, and at arboRISE the uprising speaks to us.
At the end of the evening, with an audience transported into the Sahelian reality, we can retain that there are reforestation projects that work in Africa, each adapted to its context. There is no need for immense means to finance the initial impulse and create a virtuous circle. This is what arboRise has demonstrated since 2021.