{"slug":"seedballs-kenya","name":"Seedballs Kenya","tagline":"Charcoal-dust coated indigenous tree and grass seedballs for low-cost dryland reseeding","description":"Seedballs Kenya is a Nairobi-based collaboration between two Kenyan companies, Chardust Ltd (manufacturing) and Cookswell Jikos Ltd (sales and distribution). It coats indigenous tree and grass seeds in salvaged charcoal dust and a binder so they can be broadcast by hand, vehicle or aircraft without nursery raising. Seedballs have been distributed since September 2016 across Kenya and East Africa, including a 14 million seedball campaign with Bolt. The organization reports seedballs distributed rather than trees established.","website_url":"https://www.seedballskenya.com","logo_url":null,"founded_year":2016,"org_type":"social_enterprise","scope":"national","headquarters":{"city":"Nairobi","region":"Nairobi County","country":"KE","lat":-1.2921,"lng":36.8219},"volunteer_url":null,"donation_url":"https://www.seedballskenya.com/donate","events_url":null,"featured":false,"trees_on_record":75400000,"primary_activity":"seed-collection","activities":[{"slug":"seed-collection","name":"Seed collection","primary":true},{"slug":"reforestation","name":"Reforestation","primary":false},{"slug":"afforestation","name":"Afforestation","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-07T21:30:23.685Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/seedballs-kenya","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/seedballs-kenya.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/seedballs-kenya","data_note":"Seedballs Kenya counts seedballs, which are tree seeds coated in charcoal dust and scattered by hand or from the air, not seedlings or standing trees: 75.4 million distributed since September 2016 according to its website, and 13 million sold by March 2021 according to AFP. The company publishes no germination or survival figures; AFP reported in 2021 that about 5 to 10 percent of seedballs scattered in the wild produce a shoot.","derived":{"annual_trees":[],"latest_annual":null,"yoy":null,"cagr":null,"dollars_raised_per_tree":null,"cost_per_tree":null,"trees_per_volunteer":null,"survival":null,"hectares":null,"transparency":{"score":10,"label":"Opaque","points":[{"key":"annual","label":"Publishes annual tree figures","earned":0,"max":20,"why":"No year-by-year figures found"},{"key":"recent","label":"Figures are recent","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No dated annual figure"},{"key":"sourced","label":"Every figure has a public source","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"2 of 2 figures link to a source"},{"key":"money","label":"Publishes financials or cost per tree","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No financial figure recorded"},{"key":"survival","label":"Reports survival or monitoring","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No survival or monitoring figure"},{"key":"verified","label":"Independently verified figure","earned":0,"max":10,"why":"All figures are the organization's own"},{"key":"programs","label":"Breaks figures down by program","earned":0,"max":10,"why":"No program breakdown"},{"key":"people","label":"Reports volunteers or events","earned":0,"max":5,"why":"No volunteer figures or events"}]},"methodology":"https://treerm.org/methodology"},"countries":["KE"],"social_links":{"instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/seedballskenya/","facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/BiocharSeedballs"},"programs":[],"metrics":[{"metric_type":"trees_distributed","year":2021,"value":13000000,"is_cumulative":true,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.africanews.com/2021/03/01/the-simple-seedballs-giving-kenya-s-forests-a-helping-hand/","source_note":"AFP feature carried by Africanews, 1 March 2021: 'The company has sold 13 million seedballs since launching in mid-2016'. Seedballs, not seedlings; company figure relayed by press","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_distributed","year":2026,"value":75400000,"is_cumulative":true,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.seedballskenya.com/","source_note":"Homepage (re-checked 2026-11-07): '75,400,000 SEEDBALLS DISTRIBUTED SINCE SEP. 2016'. Figure counts seedballs (seeds coated in charcoal dust), not seedlings or established trees; the company states no germination or survival rate. AFP (Africanews, 1 Mar 2021) reported that only 5 to 10 percent of seedballs thrown in the wild yield a shoot","confidence":"reported"}],"upcoming_events":[],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}