3,000,000 Trees Planted and counting.
After leaving the Royal Navy early in 2000, Andy Steel set off on a journey that would see him and his family relocating to Sri Lanka to undertake employment in the power sector. While working in an industry that was polluting the atmosphere an opportunity arose to change sectors, relocate and move into the forestry industry in 2006.
Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) & Leonardo DiCaprio were also starting to make noises about climate change. Andy now working for a forestry company believed that they could do more to support the climate change agenda and the company's triple-bottom-line principles and came up with the idea of a charity focusing on reforestation. Unfortunately, the board didn’t necessarily agree but the concept of the Foundation was born.
As they say from small acorns a great oak tree grows and continues to grow.
PATT Foundation is built on a foundation of 3 pillars; Trees, Training & Therapy. Our goal is to change the world one tree at a time. We work with communities to create woodlands and forests to help combat climate change for a better future. We have planted around the world to help areas fight back against deforestation, create wildlife habitat and build natural environments.
