Second contribution from fundraising sent to Sebastian. Third contribution from fundraising sent to Sebastian. Sebastian decides to wait a year until after the fall rains if they come for final replanting effort because spring rains are inadequate. Number of young trees being tended in nursery is 2817. However, the seeds are inspected by the USDA in Los Angeles and found to be infected with a fungus and must be destroyed.
Plans are to try again after next year's seed harvest.
Severe weather fluctuations caused by the El Ni o weather system produces first droughts and then floods in East Africa causing much of the planned work of the ABCP to be delayed. The harvest of mpingo seeds is adversely affected causing a lack of seeds to plant and outdoor work on building the project is curtailed. Plants in nursery continue to be cared for. Farmers who have requested plants transplant the young trees along field boundaries. Mpingos are interplanted with other hardwoods into the one-acre plot in Moshi.