We recently completed our biggest single-day tree planting exercise to date, putting 10,000 Musangu (Faidherbia albida) trees in the ground at Chisengo Village in Chongwe District. Working alongside 23 community members, we planted across one hectare of degraded land just 10 kilometres from Chongwe Town, and we finished the job in five hours. Of the […]
As part of our agroforestry pilot project, we went to Chilyabale Primary School, located 25 kilometres from Chongwe in Manyika, to conduct an agroforestry training. The school and the surrounding farmers currently face challenges, including water shortages and a total reliance on rainfed farming, making climate-smart interventions more urgent than ever. This initiative specifically aimed […]
Green Gold Social recently held a community training on agroforestry and reforestation with persons living with disabilities (PWDs) in Kampekete Village, Chongwe District, bringing together participants from Kampekete and Chilyabale Villages alongside local leaders and the Chongwe Network for People Living with Disabilities. Out of 30 expected participants, 23 attended with women (13) outnumbering men […]
We have created a brilliant innovation to address the logistical and financial challenges of reforestation. We normally sell seedlings to support our work, but this has been challenge for various reasons. In a dry place like Chongwe were we are located, watering the seedlings has been hard because they need alot of moisture before they […]
For Mr. Banda, a hardworking welder and metal worker in Chikwela Village, the small piece of land behind his house is where he turns his attention once the sparks of his workshop have settled. This year, his backyard became the site of a remarkable transformation. Participating in the Chongwe Agroforestry Initiative Pilot, Mr. Banda watched […]
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 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 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 […]
In Zambia, charcoal is a major source of energy for cooking and heating, especially in urban areas where electricity is expensive or unreliable. But the cost to the environment is huge. Every tree cut down for charcoal is a step backward in the fight against climate change.
We are working with 300 farmers in 3 villages in Chongwe where we have held agroforestry trainings to help farmers become climate resilient.
