In South Africa alone hundreds of schools have no clean drinking water available at their school. Girls are taken out of school to collect water. A PlayPump at a school allows girls more time to attend school, and can increase overall attendance at schools as a consequence of the availability of water and the fun of playing on it. In addition water borne health problems, such as diarrhea, can be significantly reduced.

Rural communities, who have no municipal water, are also forced to collect their water from streams, dams and unreliable water sources. Women and girls have to walk anything up to 5 kms a day to collect water for their household, with no guarantee that the water collected is fit for human consumption.

Roundabout Water Solutions conducts bacteriological and chemical testing is done on each borehole to ensure that the water is fit for human consumption. A step down test is also conducted to ensure that the borehole can sustain prolonged abstraction of the water and the flow is sufficient to meet the needs of the community. Each and every borehole is referred to a qualified geo-hydroloogist for analysis of the water results and a recommendation of the most suitable pump settings to ensure a sustainable flow of water and ease of use by the community.

The PlayPump is maintained free of charge for a period of ten years. Maintenance is performed by trained, locally sourced maintenance crews. The spare parts are provided free of charge to the community. All sites are inspected on a rotation basis and each and every site has a free pump repair SMS number whereby they can report a problem to our office.

CONTACT US:

Roundabout Water Solutions (RWS)
NPO No: 071-197-NPO).
PBO No 930027988)

www.playpumps.co.za

Tell: +27 11 543-7928
Mobile: +27 82 704-0370
Fax: +27 11 781-5150
Mail: sandra.hayes@playpumps.co.za

We work with these ladies in the schools and communities located in their own areas and as they complete their own individual environmental project, they are creating a larger footprint of environmental education and awareness. This leadership programme is a powerful initiative that combines young, glamorous and fashionable ladies speaking and educating youth and communities about the problems we face in the environmental sector

Our Director, Catherine Constantinides believes in the Triple Bottom-line; Planet, People and Profit and how business or not, we need to consider all three aspects holistically. We all have a role and responsibility to mother earth, we need to start today for the results of tomorrow

The 2011 STATIONERY DRIVE is well on its way. Collecting pens, pencils, rulers, books, files etc. from communities around South Africa to create stationery packs for children in need. We do not believe social and environmental issue are separate, but we believe in every project initiative we embark on we need to look at everything in a holistic manner

This year’s 2011 Stationery Drive will equip hundreds of learners going back to school with full stationery packs to start the year with the right equipment, a smile and a thirst for knowledge

We have been asking corporates, colleagues, schools and community members to get involved and assist in donating stationery for children in Soweto, Alexandra, Tembisa and Polokwane. The amount of learners that benefit depends on the amount collected

The ear-marked schools are frightfully underprivileged and learners share pencils among themselves because they simply do not have their own. Rulers, colour pencils, erasers, highlighters and scissors are a luxury. We aim to ensure that the start of their school year is filled with excitement and a zest to learn and absorb all they can during 2011. Other items that are needed are examination pads, files and note books

”ONE COLOUR PENCIL CAN DRAW A THOUSAND DREAMS”

Get in Touch:

Ella Bella
ellabella@mweb.co.za

Miss Earth South Africa Educational Officer &
UNEP Ambassador for the TUNZA Youth Programme

www.missearthsa.co.za

This short, hour long play and interactive workshop, forms part of our Climate Change Action Program for primary schools. ‘Gutman and Tiger’ was originally created in the UK in 2002 as a roadshow. It was so successful that Save Our World the commissioning NGO, secured funding to develop it further as part of a schools initiative called The Climate Change Action Program. Kyla was part of the original UK team and, in 2008, she and Well Worn reworked the play and Action Programme to suit a South African context

The Program consists of 3 visits to the school:

• A pre-meeting with teachers, staff and parents in which the issues and importance of Climate Change, Global Warming and ‘what you can do to help’ are discussed
• The Play (aimed at grades 3-7), in which learners will comprehensively gain knowledge of a number of concepts including Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gasses and Energy Efficiency
• A Follow-On session a month or so later in which the characters from the show return for a visit to see how the school and pupils are getting on with their energy-saving promises

We decided to sandwich the play between these two meetings because we do not want our message to go in one ear and out the other. The most important point regarding the program (and the message of the play) is sustainability: in thought and deed. We are encouraging the kids, teachers and schools to change their behaviour. To rethink their whole approach towards energy and waste and our collective impact on the earth. We therefore want to have several visits to the school in order to support that behaviour change.

We find the play to be very effective in communicating a complicated subject to children. They come away with an increased awareness of Climate Change; all the difficulties surrounding the issue and, most importantly, feeling empowered to do something about it.

It is our intention to never leave a school feeling gloomy and helpless but rather inspired and positive and motivated that they can turn this challenge into an opportunity for growth and positive personal, social, environmental and economic development. We find this work particularly inspiring in South Africa, where we already understand the spirit of pulling together to make something better….

Contact us:

066-694-NPO
Kyla Davis
076 715 2414
kylalliandavis@gmail.com
www.wellworntheatre.org.za
7 Chichester Street Westdene
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2092
South Africa

Non-Profit Organisation Registration Number: NPO 003-901

In the past 19 years FTFA has distributed over 3.6 million trees, facilitated the development of over 2500 natural food gardens for the poorest in South Africa, and launched the first carbon calculator and the Carbon Protocol in this country.

In 1990 Founder, Jeunesse Park, gathered a group of concerned individuals,representing the then major greening organisations in South Africa, who came together with the realisation that the real environmental crisis in this country centred on people, uplifting quality of life and addressing climate change. They recognized that a simple way of achieving this was through the greening of unhealthy, denuded and degraded landscapes. This was the birth of Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA), the first (and still only) South African social enterprise that develops, promotes and facilitates greening, climate change action, food security and sustainable natural resource use and management, known as Trees for Africa until 2000.

OBJECTIVES

• To contribute to greening, climate change action, sustainable natural resource management and food security
• To create an awareness of the benefits of environmental improvement activities amongst all communities of southern Africa
• To contribute to poverty alleviation, enhanced environments, capacity building and skills development, many projects for people living with Aids

CONTACT:

www.trees.co.za

Tel: 011 656 9802
Fax: 086 547 1258

94 Bessemer Street
Wendywood
2144

PO Box 2035
Gallo Manor 2052

Waterways are literally the natural arteries of the earth and are home to myriad species as well as providing drinking water, irrigation for the foods we eat and recreation to millions of people throughout Africa.

The sad truth, however, is that most of Africa’s rivers are badly polluted through human activity, negligence, stupidity and greed. WET was formed to provide know-how and resources to help rehabilitate that most fundamental of natural resources and human rights – clean, safe water.

OUR VISION

To restore the critically endangered rivers of Africa to health from source to sea. We also see an enabling environment for: Green Proclamation, Policy Development, Enterprise development and the development of the WET Training Institute. Our Mission is to provide knowledge, resources and skills in waterway and river restoration and waste separation & recycling at source creating sustainable income for communities, energising partnerships with stakeholders, developing capacity and presenting Train-the-Trainer programmes. The objectives of WET-Africa are to create community enterprises that focus on restoring our endangered rivers to health and animating communities and businesses to separate their waste at source for recycling. Major themes of our work include Poverty alleviation, Waterway Rehabilitation, Unemployment, Biosphere/ Environment, Health.

www.wet-africa.org

We aspire to an environment where people control their food supply systems, where the benefits from commercial use of biological resources are fairly shared and where ordinary citizens are encouraged to help make policy choices about new technologies, such as, genetic modification. We are working towards a future where there is no hunger, where there is social justice and where our land, water and air are protected.

Biowatch South Africa was established in 1997 to publicise, monitor and research issues of genetic modification and promote biological diversity and sustainable livelihoods. Biowatch is currently based in KZN with the head office in Durban and a rural office that works with small scale farmers on sustainable agriculture, food and seed security and farmers’ rights

CONTACT

Tel: +27 (0) 31 206 2954
Fax: +27 (0) 86 546 9196

PO Box 2243
Hillcrest
3650

www.biowatch.org.za