Greening the Community

• For Indalo to open and sustain a nursery in Kwa Nobuhle
• Create empowerment and upskill people
• Preserve the biocultural landscape
• Educate our youth
• To see a visible Greening of the Kwa Nobuhle landscape
• To spark public interest through an annual fundraising event

• Plant 500+ trees annually in the township of Kwa Nobuhle
• Involve 500+ school pupils in environmental awareness workshops during tree-planting events
• Host 130+ school pupils for conservation day trips to Nyosi Wildlife Reserve
• Host an annual tree-planting and fundraising event

*Going forward, Greening the Community goals will focus on the tree-planting and environmental awareness for school pupils at the participating schools. We will continue with the Siyazenzela course and internship programme under our Youth Development Initiative.

• Plant 600 trees in the township of Kwa Nobuhle by mid-2022
• Enrol 20 students from Kwa Nobuhle in the Siyazenzela Life Skills and Employability Program in 2021
• Provide internships for two selected graduates for six months with Indalo at Nyosi Wildlife Reserve in 2022
• Indalo to open a nursery in Kwa Nobuhle

• R180,000+ for tree-planting and environmental awareness workshops. For every R300 donated we can plant a young tree, or for every R900 we can plant a more mature tree of 2m in height, at one of our participating partner schools in Kwa Nobuhle. Trees will be planted during a set timeframe each year to coincide with our annual tree-planting event.
• R62,500: Conservation day trips for school pupils from the Kwa Nobuhle township to experience the natural heritage and wildlife. For every R12,500 donated, we can host a group of 26 pupils with 4 teachers on a day trip to Nyosi Wildlife Reserve, including transport, an educational game drive safari, interactive activities with Indalo and lunch.

• Our two interns from our youth development course began their internship placements on Monday 3rd of April 2023. Part of their role is to carry out follow-up visits to the KwaNobuhle schools where we have planted trees previously to assess how the trees are doing, gather feedback from the tutors and school students involved and report back to Indalo. Together, we will analyse the results which will help us identify what lessons we can learn and if we need to make any changes to the project going forward. For example, we have already identified that it may be better to plant fewer, but larger more established trees for a better chance of success – especially given the severe drought being experienced in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. 
• In 2023, all trees from funds raised through our Greening the Community project will be planted in Arbor week. This coincides with one of the best times of the year to plant trees, at the beginning of Spring. 

• We exceeded our goal of planting 600 trees in the township of Kwa Nobuhle by mid-2022 in 12 different schools. Over 300 school pupils attended the different tree planting days, benefitting from environmental and biocultural awareness delivered by the Indalo and CCFA teams. Indalo selected the school who took the best care of their trees and a class of 30 students from VM Kwinana School enjoyed an educational safari day with lunch at Nyosi Wildlife Reserve with Indalo.
• CCFA hosted a fundraising event in Nelson Mandela Bay called ‘Everesting’ where ultra-athlete Steven Lancaster undertook this epic challenge in aid of the project. With the Everesting concept, you pick a hill, anywhere in the world and then run or ride repeats of it, in a single activity, until you have climbed 8 849m – the equivalent ascent of Mount Everest. During the 24-hour period, Lancaster aimed to summit Brickmakers Kloof Road 165 times. Each summit was 700m long with a 63m elevation. The average gradient is a challenging 9% but tops out at 12% in the first 300m. (The steepest gradient in the Tour de France is 13%). His ‘Mount Everest’ was reached after 141 summits; However, he aimed to run further and achieved a height of 10 000m.
• We enrolled 20 students from Kwa Nobuhle in the Siyazenzela Life Skills and Employability Programme in 2021
• We provided six-month internships for two graduates selected by Indalo at Nyosi Wildlife Reserve in 2022. One of the interns accepted an offer of permanent employment at the Reserve following her internship and she is an aspiring field guide.
• Indalo have revised their goal of opening a nursery in Kwa Nobuhle, and continue to operate their nursery at Nyosi Wildlife Reserve.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.