Trees, Water & People (TWP) is 26 years old? That can’t be right. The years that Stuart and I spent creating and building TWP remind me of the years raising our three children. There were months of momentum and optimism that raced by at a gallop, and also moments of loss and challenges that felt like we would never make it through.

By Laurel Thompson

Stuart Conway and Richard Fox founded Trees, Water & People (TWP) in 1998 to help reverse deforestation in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and other parts of Central America. Then it occurred to them that by planting trees without addressing the reasons they were being cut down, they were only doing half the job.