WE FREE TREES FOUNDATION

Climate Educated. Workforce Ready. Community Owned.

We are a climate education and clean energy workforce readiness organization committed to supporting communities by creating opportunities that strengthen local economies.

We are dedicated to advancing communities in climate, environment, and clean energy education, workforce readiness, and local ownership. We work with local communities by preparing people for the clean energy transition through training in skilled trades and equipping them to build, own, and sustain businesses in the clean energy sector. From idea to implementation, we take a Full‑Life Cycle approach to ensure local businesses and initiatives are built to last.

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Our Mission

Our goal is for communities to develop the capacity to establish clean energy infrastructure that they own—locally, nationally, and globally. Climate educated. Workforce ready. Community owned.

We bring the classroom to the community.

Two women standing on a stage in front of a large presentation slide. The slide has a graphic of the moon with a hand reaching toward it and colorful rays emanating from it. There is text on the slide that reads, "WHAT IT MEANS TO BE YOUTH + EMPOWERED: IN CLIMATE CLEAN ENERGY & MORE." The women are smiling, one wearing a black and white patterned dress and the other wearing a green top with a scarf and black pants.

The Mobile Trade School

The Mobile Trade School is a traveling climate education and workforce program that delivers hands-on workshops, demonstrations, and career exposure directly to communities—meeting people where they are. Designed to spark curiosity and build real-world skills, the program brings climate learning on the road to schools, community centers, and neighborhoods.

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Colorfully painted shipping container building labeled "Community Center" and "Classroom" with outdoor seating and stairs, set in a park with trees and a blue sky.

The Luweero Project

The Luweero Clean Energy Resilience Community Center is a community-led training hub based in Luweero, Uganda, that prepares youth and adults for the clean energy transition through vocational training, hands-on innovation, and entrepreneurship. Built from repurposed shipping containers, this hub provides accessible climate education and technical skills to empower communities to build, own, and sustain their own clean energy infrastructure.

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The Climate Club

The Climate Club is a youth-centered, after-school climate education, workforce, and leadership program designed to help students build a personal and professional relationship with the environment while exploring climate and clean energy careers early on—across the full climate space.

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Our Approach is Rooted in Partnership

We collaborate with community‑based organizations, schools, governments, and climate startups. Our approach is rooted in a two‑pronged Train‑to‑Deploy model by working with companies and organizations to provide training and curriculum expertise, technology and equipment supply, and shipping containers for modular campuses.

Training & Curriculum Partners

We are seeking partners to collaborate on development of curriculum, technical materials, and industry best practices.

This includes connections with qualified experts or trainers to deliver sessions in Uganda and direct support training‑of‑trainers (ToT) so local instructors can continue teaching.

Technology & Equipment Supply

We are seeking corporate partners able to donate or lend technology and equipment for our program graduates to be able to train on real equipment and immediately apply skills to infrastructure projects in local communities/Uganda.

Shipping Containers for Modular Campuses

We are seeking contributions of cargo shipping containers to help build scalable, modular training hubs and innovation spaces to support our programming.

Become a Partner!

Interested in partnering, sponsoring, or contributing cargo containers for our modular campuses—have a question, want to collaborate, or ready to support our schools?

Submit the form below or reach us directly at grow@wftfoundation.org.