We closed out the year with our last school climate workshop at Bimbe Primary School in Chongwe where we also planted 81 Musiniga Trees (Sizygium cumin). We spoke to more than 150 students from Grade 3 to Grade 6 classes about climate change and how planting trees helps mitigate it. We also taught them the […]
We started our youth empowerment scheme with five young people from Chisengo village who are making grow bags under the Chongwe Reforestation Initiative. The youths were taught how to make seedling bags and given materials to make 500 bags each over a period of two months. The seedling bags will be used to plant native […]
We kicked off our seed collection for the 2025-26 tree planting season at Chisengo village in Chongwe with a planning meeting where we met with he vice village headman, young people and several key women who are going to the contact people for our native tree seed collection. The trees are starting to drop their […]
We continued our mission to educate the next generation on environmental conservation, this time at Stashine Academy in Inqua Village, Chongwe District on the 3rd of July 2025. This workshop marked one of the ten schools targeted in the Chongwe area for climate change awareness and tree planting exercises, a critical part of the broader […]
From its medicinal purposes to its sweety and tangy black fruits, musiniga is a favorite to plant at Green Gold Social. Here is why
We had a meeting with the Network for people living with Disabilities in Chongwe at their furniture workshop on Chalimbana road. The purpose of the meeting was for us to find out how climate change affects people who are differently abled and to establish a relationship with them so that we could support one another […]
We picked up where we left last term with our school climate workshops and tree planting at Chishiko Primary School in Chongwe where we spoke to 100 students and planted 25 Musiniga (Syzygium Cumin) trees. Read about out first one here. This initiative is sponsored by the Polination Project, who are also supporting us to […]
We have been planting indigenous trees and raising climate awareness in Chisengu, Chikwela and Kapuka villages in Chongwe through trainings and meetings. In these meetings, women have taken the center stage – In attendance, in planting trees and in getting their voices heard. In the first awareness meeting in a village called Chisengu located 15 […]
Green Gold Social on Friday the 4th of April started the school climate awareness and tree planting project at African Vision of Hope (AVOH) school in Chongwe. The initiative, which will involve 450 students and will see 250 fruit trees planted at 10 schools in Chongwe, aims to equip school going children with the skills […]
January 4 2025 was a huge day for us. After months of planning, we finally planted 1000 Leucaena trees in Chisengu village in Chongwe for our agroforestry pilot project to restore the land and help farmers become resilient to extreme weather conditions. We began preparing for this huge milestone months ago when we collected over […]
