This project was initiated by Belgian agronomists and missionaries in the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and later entrusted to Congolese-Belgian philanthropist and horticulturist Jean Kiala-Inkisi.

The botanists P. Staner & A. Corbisier together with Professor G. Gilbert at the Laboratory of Tropical Forestry, UC Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium started cultivating the Treculia at the Botanic Garden of Eala in the Belgian Congo at the end of 1924.

During the years 1974, 1976 and 1977, the Flemish Father Jacques Bijttebier of the Scheut Missionaries had the opportunity to live for many months in the area of the Catholic Mission of Lokalema (Zaïre), and more particularly in the Pygmy villages situated downriver on the Zaire,(Congo), facing Lisala.

For more than 30 years he studied and selected, together with the Flemish Sister Paula Trio, the best varieties of the Treculia in Pendjua in the north of Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In 1974 Father Jaqcues Bijttebier, (under the guidance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UNESCO), mapped the dissemination area of the Treculia in Africa.

Sister Paula Trio then brought +-400 seeds with her, which Prof. Jean DeClerck immediately divided amongst the involved Universities and also the Botanical National Garden of Meise (Belgium).

Prof. Jean Lejoly (Ulb) wanted to save 100 of them to undertake research participated in with Zairian, (Congolese), scientists, L. Ndjele & JP Mate.

[5] In 2004, the Foundation Maisha planted, in cooperation with researchers from the Universities of Kisangani and Leuven K.U.L (Belgium), the Treculia Africana tree in Lubumbashi to nourish the street children.

In the spring of 2012 the horticulturist Jean Kiala-Inkisi came in contact with the Flemish bakery consultant Guido Lasat, who was a close friend of Father Bijtebier who had worked with him in the '70s to early '90s.

In 2012 the Belgian CICM Missionaries and the Flemish bakery consultant Guido Lasat entrusted to managing director Jean Kiala-Inkisi an old agro-forestry project of the late Father Jacques Bijttebier in the rainforest of the D.R.