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Community clean-up and tree planting campaign
Residents, schools and local leadership joined a combined clean-up and tree planting campaign across Dete township.
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Environmental & Social Responsibility
Building stronger communities and encouraging environmental responsibility.
Strong communities and a healthy environment reinforce each other. This strand holds the work that binds our programmes together — stewardship, cohesion and shared responsibility.
What communities are dealing with.
The problem
- Waste management, deforestation and water pressure affect daily life and long-term health.
- Environmental responsibility is often framed as external instruction rather than local ownership.
- Vulnerable households can fall outside the reach of formal support systems.
Our response, in practice.
What Tikobane is doing
- Run community clean-up, tree planting and environmental stewardship initiatives.
- Support vulnerable households through community-identified assistance.
- Facilitate dialogue between communities, leadership and institutions.
- Embed environmental awareness across all our other programmes.
The concrete work on the ground.
Activities
- Clean-up campaigns and waste management awareness
- Tree planting and woodlot establishment
- Community dialogue and cohesion meetings
- Support to vulnerable households
- Environmental education sessions
What has changed so far.
Results
- Community-led environmental activities recur without external prompting.
- Local leadership actively co-hosts community dialogue.
- Environmental practice is visible across all Tikobane programmes.
Communities involved
- Dete township and surrounding villages
- Schools, churches and community groups
- Traditional leadership and local authorities
How you can support this
- Sponsor a community clean-up or tree planting campaign.
- Fund environmental education materials for schools.
- Volunteer to facilitate community dialogue or environmental sessions.
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Other areas of our work
- Animal WelfareAnimal health, husbandry education, veterinary outreach and community engagement.Learn more
- Community DevelopmentSustainable livelihoods, entrepreneurship and community-led development.Learn more
- Youth & ChildrenBoys & Girls Clubs, mentorship, life skills and educational support.Learn more
Community-led change needs people behind it
Whether you give, volunteer, mentor or partner with us, you make the next season of work possible for households in and around Dete.