Green Hearts

Inspiring Environmental Stewardship Through Community Engagement and Education

Green Hearts is a community team from Retreat, led by a passionate local resident.

Their mission is to work with volunteers and youth to green the area, offer propagation education, and inspire a love for the environment through nature-based excursions.

Mosselbank River Conservation Team

Nurturing Young Environmental Stewards Through Exploration and Education 

The Mosselbank River Conservation Team is committed to developing their young members, the Wetland Wonderers. 

They will embark on a journey beyond Fisantekraal, exploring nature and experiencing the environmental highlights of Cape Town.

To learn more visit their Facebook Page

Earthchild

Eco-Explorers

The aim of the Earthchild Eco-Explorers project is to instill in learners a strong appreciation for the natural world and to grow future leaders who care for the environment and become change-makers in their communities. The project will focus on Grade 7 learners from eight different schools across the Cape Flats and will inspire them to connect with nature through interactive guided hikes and eco-adventures across the Western Cape.

For more info on this organisation visit their Facebook page.

Friends of Tokai Park

Tokai Park Biodiversity Gateway project

The Tokai Park Biodiversity Gateway project aims to effectively engage stakeholder groups and schools from the surrounding community to inspire a passion and love for nature. The project will focus on engaging community groups through an ‘Adopt-a-Plot’ project, a week-long environmental education nature festival, and excursions to the park for 15 school groups. Through this project, the Friends of Tokai Park hope to address the alien vegetation problem within the park and to enhance biodiversity.

For more info on this organisation visit their Facebook page.

Ocean Ambassadors

Educating Youth on Plastic Pollution Through Citizen Science

The Ocean Ambassadors project aims to inform the youth about the dangers of plastic pollution through citizen science experiments.

The project will afford Grade 11 and 12 learners with the opportunity to sail out into Table Bay, Cape Town, and experience first-hand the effects of plastic on the oceans through educational lessons and experiments.

Oceano Reddentes

Innovating Eco-Bricks and Educating for a Cleaner Future

The Oceano Reddentes project aims to pioneer a natural building system using eco bricks and to educate the youth on plastic waste and the environment. In addition, the project aims to conduct beach clean-ups and research into the types of plastic waste collected. The project will aim to achieve this through regular clean-ups and workshops.

For more info on this organisation visit their Facebook page

Wynberg Girls’ High School Enviro Club

Empowering Students for a Sustainable Future

The aim of the Wynberg Girls’ High School Enviro Club is to foster environmental awareness and inspire sustainable practices both within the school and the surrounding community.

The club leads a variety of initiatives, including the successful ‘Rethink the Bag’ campaign to eliminate plastic shopping bags and the promotion of eco-bricks as a way to repurpose non-biodegradable waste.

Green Anglicans

Inspiring Youth to Protect Nature Through Action and Faith

The Young Green Anglicans project aims to inspire youth to take practical action to protect nature through: combatting single use plastic, reducing water wastage, and planting indigenous plants. The project will link youth and Sunday school with nature through environmental hikes, and lessons using comprehensive resource materials developed to make the link between faith and nature.

For more info on this organisation visit their Website.

Communitree

Fynbos Connects Us project

The Fynbos Connects Us project aims to add three fynbos gardens along the Liesbeek River, and three in Bonteheuwel, that will form stepping-stones in a corridor adjacent to the Black and Liesbeek Rivers. This project aims to encourage a knowledge exchange of how to mobilise local communities (a strength of the Bonteheuwel Walking Ladies) with practical and professional biodiversity knowledge (a strength of the Newlands and Rondebosch group) between participating community organizations. It is hoped that these gardens will upskill and encourage involvement from community members.

For more info on this organisation visit their Website. or Facebook page.

Jam’ Eyyatul Qurra (JEQ)

Promoting Sustainability Through the Zero-Waste to Landfill Initiative

JEQ is a school-based in Schaapkraal, Philippi, that aims to implement a Zero-waste to Landfill Initiative. The project aims to generate awareness around our natural resources, encouraging learners to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Follow the School’s Facebook Page.

The Future Kids

Raising Awareness and Taking Action Against Plastic Pollution

The purpose of the Future Kids Project is to create awareness about plastic pollution and its effect on the planet and our oceans. The project encourages a sense of responsibility among youth to take charge through regular beach clean-ups. The Future Kids clean-up club was founded by Rocco Da Silva in 2018, “I was tired of seeing litter on the beach and all around and decided to do something about it by getting friends together to cleanup up the beach, every month. The club meets once a month on Strand beach to clear the litter, we are assisted by Manor Homes, and Interwaste removes, sorts and recycles the collected waste.”.

The Future Kids

Empowering Disadvantaged Youth with Ocean Education and Leadership Skills

The Youth Angling Academy Project affords youth from disadvantaged communities an opportunity to learn about the ocean, sustainable fishing practices, and to instill a love and respect for the environment. Through the project, youth not only gain invaluable knowledge on the environment, but in conjunction they develop an array of leadership skills.

For more info on this project visit their Facebook page.

Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration Project

Creating a Migration Corridor for Nectar-Feeding Birds and Engaging Communities in Conservation

The Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration Project aims to create a migration corridor for nectar feeding birds across the Cape Flats, forming a geographical link between the Table Mountain National Park and the Boland mountains, leading to biodiversity enhancement. Through the use of schools as planting sites, the project will facilitate the entry of students and teachers into conservation.

For more info have a look at their Facebook page.

The Thelma Susan Block Dumas Institute

Empowering Youth Through Skills-Based Education and Biodiversity Awareness

The Thelma Susan Block Dumas Institute aims to enhance the youth footprint to the Edith Stephens Nature Reserve through Skills-based & Biodiversity Education and Awareness training Projects. This opportunity will enable youth to become educated, skilled, productive, value adding, and conscious individuals; and to prepare the participants to pursue a tertiary education for the 2019 academic year.

Children of the Land

 Project Indigenousness

The Children of the Land – Project Indigenousness introduces indigenous flora of the Cape Floristic Region to children of primary school age. This is achieved through setting up outdoor classrooms, nurseries, seed banks, education programmes, and offering experiences focused on biodiversity and wild food growing.

For more info on this project visit their Facebook page