This is not a promise. It is already growing.
From bare desert to first harvest.
Five years of patient work on a 100 acre farm near Esna, Upper Egypt. Every photo below was taken on our land.
For $300, you plant a date palm in Upper Egypt. Its harvest pays for a child's schooling, not for one year, for life.
Give before 30 June and claim it back this tax year.
We don't send a hand-out. We plant a future.
In villages around Esna, many families live on what the land gives that season. When there's no income, school is the first thing to go, and a bright child is sent to work instead of to class.
We don't hand out a one-off gift that runs out. We plant a date palm in their name. Every year it fruits, the harvest is sold, and that steady income keeps a child in the classroom.
Watch what your $300 sets in motion, and why it keeps giving, harvest after harvest.
This is the difference between a gift that runs out and a gift that compounds. Your palm is harvested and sold every year, turning one act of generosity into schooling that never stops.
A real, self-sustaining farm on 100 acres in Upper Egypt, your gift keeps giving, harvest after harvest, year after year.
Your $300 plants and nurtures a date palm on the Esna farm.
As it matures it bears Medjool dates, a renewable crop, every single year.
The harvest is sold across Egypt & the Middle East, steady, renewable income.
That steady revenue funds a child's education, for life, not just one year.
Five years of patient work on a 100 acre farm near Esna, Upper Egypt. Every photo below was taken on our land.
Choose how many palms to plant. Every dollar over $2 is tax-deductible before 30 June.
This isn't a concept, it's a working farm being built acre by acre in Upper Egypt. Here's where it stands right now.
Planned next for the farm: a water well, solar power, worker housing, and summer camps for up to 1,600 children a year.
You need not speak much about hope, you need to live in hope.
For the children, this is like a dream.
You always take away far more than you give.
“You need not speak much about hope, you need to live in hope.”
For Abouna Daoud, generosity isn't a campaign, it's a way of living. Following Pope Tawadros II's call to put the poor before buildings, Thanksgiving Australia gives where the need is greatest. The Esna palm farm is that conviction made real: not a hand-out, but something planted that keeps giving, a child's education, harvest after harvest.
The Esna date-palm project in Upper Egypt, from the first planting to premium Medjool dates on the market. Tap any image to read its story.
"One palm, one child, and a lifetime of hope."The Palm Tree Project, Thanksgiving Australia
Hear it from the people on the ground in Upper Egypt, how a single palm becomes a child's future.
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