Water for Trees

by WILDTRUST

KwaZulu-Natal Environment Health Care Poverty Alleviation

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R 13,555

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This project is raising funds to provide partnering communities in KwaZulu-Natal with safe drinking water, as well as to plant indigenous trees in community restoration areas. This will be done by bartering indigenous trees - grown by community growers - for water filtration, sanitation and storage products.

Access to water is a basic right in South Africa. Yet, for many people, this right remains elusive, especially when it relates to reliable access to clean drinking water. The recent closure of beaches in KwaZulu-Natal due to poor water quality of rivers flowing into the sea, has drawn attention to the poor state of river health, the primary source of water that most rural communities depend upon. Climatic events, such as the 2022 floods illustrated the poor state of municipal water infrastructure and the need to act against the drivers of global climate change.

The WILDTRUST has a long history of growing and planting indigenous trees to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Indigenous trees, planted in the right areas pull carbon from the air and assist other efforts to prevent global temperatures from rising.

This project brings together our efforts in addressing climate change through the growing and planting of indigenous trees with providing access to clean drinking water to the communities we work in. We do this by trading rainwater containers (JoJo tanks) and water filtration systems with local Tree-preneurs for the indigenous trees they grow. Tree-preneurs are typically unemployed people in the communities where we work who grow indigenous trees in their homestead gardens. We have grown over 3 million indigenous trees over the years, which the WILDTRUST have planted (while also removing alien plants) to help restore degraded areas and make ecosystems more resilient to climate change impacts. We provide guidance on the species of trees and assist with propagation training. Once the trees are large enough to be planted into reforestation sites, we trade the trees from our Tree-preneurs for barter goods. In the case of this project, we will trade the rainwater harvesting tanks and filtration systems directly for trees at an agreed value. As a result, indigenous trees will be available for our restoration sites that form the cornerstone of WILDTRUST’s climate change mitigation, and in turn, our communities will have access to reliable and clean water.

We hope YOU can help us make this vision of clean water for multiple homes in rural communities, and the subsequent mitigation of climate change impacts through planting trees and restoring degraded areas, a reality.

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Anonymous donated R134.76 to Water for Trees 4 weeks ago

Funded to date:

R 13,555

Funding goal: R 317,925

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NGO: WILDTRUST

Start: 1st February 2023

End: 25th January 2024

PBO: 004-949

Field agent: Roelie Kloppers
roeliek@wildtrust.co.za

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