Residents, schools and local leadership joined a combined clean-up and tree planting campaign across Dete township.
Residents, school groups and local leadership took part in a combined clean-up and tree planting campaign across Dete township.
Campaigns like this work best when they are not framed as instruction from outside. The waste, the shade and the water table all belong to the people doing the planting.
Beyond the single day
The measure of success is not the photographs from the day. It is whether the trees are watered in three months and whether the next campaign is organised locally without prompting.
Names, photographs and quotations are published only with the informed consent of the people involved.
