 The project includes instruction and activities that teach the need to respect the local environment and the importance of sanitation and clean water to the health of the community.In addition, REDEP maintains a tree nursery, which was started with funds provided by a grant from New England Biolabs Foundation.Currently the project is being funded by American Jewish World service (AJWS) The trees from the nursery are planted by school children along farm boundaries, on institutional and common land, along river and stream banks, around homes and on degraded wastelands.