PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL PRESENTATION

PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONPrepared for: Buffalo City Metropolitan Development Agency

NPC - Reg No: 2015/316220/0823 Monument Road; Kempton Park;

Gauteng; Tel: 011 568 7953 / info@@gdfsa.org / www.gdfsa.org

Board of Directors: Mr. Dali Tambo (Chairperson)Mr. Victor NessenganiMs. Mashila MatlalaMr. Niel Van Zijl

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

About GDF

Potential Projects Summary

GDF 10 Million Tree Initiative

Waste Minimisation

Environmental, Education & Awareness

Human Development

Implementation

Monitoring and Evaluation

Previous Projects References

Contact Us

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ABOUT USVISION, MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

The Green Development Foundation (GDF) is a registered NPO No: 2015/316220/08 under South African law and in full compliance

with the Non- Profit Organizations Act, 1997 (Act no. 71 of 1997). GDF South Africa is based in Kempton Park, Gauteng and

undertakes work throughout South Africa. GDF was founded by youth from poor backgrounds who shared a deep commitment to

greening and inclusive socio-economic development.

GDF’s focus is agricultural livelihoods, environmental conservation, training and development, traditional authorities support and

emergency response and campaigns. GDF has partnered with the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, City of

Tshwane, Agri SETA, City of Ekurhuleni, National Lotteries Commission, and the South African Landscapers Institute on some of its

initiatives in the past.

Our Vision

To promote Green and Healthy Communities

Our Mission

To promote green economy participation and awareness by:

• Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change response

• Empowering impoverished communities through agricultural development, training and market access support.

• Clean City development

GDF developed a patented mascot concept, called Buti Green – a national greening champion that encourages communities,

particularly children and youth to actively participate in greening initiatives. Buti Green plays a leading role in most of GDF’s

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Community

GovernmentPrivate Sector

Service delivery protestsAnti government campaigningEtc…

Social license to operate, employment, community development, local sourcing

Client, Supply, PPP’s, Regulation etc…

Guiding perceptions in Communities:Government and wealthy business don’t help as much as they should.Sense of entitlementEtc…

Dominant Organizational Reflex:Organize AGAINST; boycott, burn, protest, march

Our challenge : Organize FOR; build, grow, nurture, collaborate. Forge partnerships.

The Epicenter of Sustainable Development

ABOUT GDFWHERE WE PLAY

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Programs

FOOD

& AGRICULTURE

ENVIRONMENTAL

& WATER

TRAINING

& SKILLSRURAL DEVELOPMENT

EMERGENCY RESPONSE & CAMPAIGNS

• Food Security and Nutrition Programs • Farmer Enterprise

Development• Agro-Processing• Product and Brand

Development

•Climate Change Response & Mitigation •Afforestation and

Reforestation•Education/Awareness

Campaigns• Water & Sanitation

• Theory and practical exposure

• Conducted in all official languages

• Curriculum integration with ASTC

• Accredited with AGRISETA / EWSETA / LGSETA

• Tribal Authorities• Agriculture Livelihoods • ABCD Methodology • Environmental

Stewardship• Improving access to

Water & Sanitation

• Partnership with public sector i.e. (Gov and CSO’s)

• Food and drought relief programs

• Conversion of Illegal Dumping sites

• Cleaning campaigns

ABOUT GDFVALUE PROPOSITION

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10 MILLION TREE INITIATIVE

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POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS SUMMARY PROGRAMS, INTERVENTIONS, OUTCOMES, PARTNERS

PROGRAMMES GDF’s INTERVENTION PILLARS ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES POTENTIAL PARTNERS

10 Million TreePlanting Initiative

GDF seeks to respond to the call by the President through:

• National Generational Nurseries- Youth and

Women owned Existing nurseries to be

identified and incubated to product required

capacity.

• Trees Bank – Identified learners in adopted

schools to be given registered trees to go and

nurture them and return them when they

are at certain growth level for a reward.

• Green Belts – Establishment of Green Belts

in the municipalities and metros throughout

the nation

• Community Forests – Creation of community owned forests using available land in the communities

The following should be achieved through these initiatives:

• Contribute towards global efforts to minimize

the impact of climate change

• Youth and Women enterprise development

• Involvement of learners and issuing of

incentives to promote participation

• Job creation

• Poverty alleviation

• Greening of communities

Government, Private Sector and Civil Societies:

• Government Departments & SOEs

• Municipalities and Metros

• Government Agencies

• Private Sector (Total Energies,

Telecommunication, automotive, and other

existing partners)

• Civil Society Organizations

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10 MILLION TREE INITIATIVEINTRODUCTION

In response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s rallying call to mobilize all sectors of South African society to become more practically environmentally conscious and in

particular, to plant 10 million Trees.

Through the good green deeds campaign, the Green Development Foundation, South Africa’s leading grassroots community embedded NGO specializing in

participatory and sustainable environmental and agricultural practices, has developed a tree planting programme that seeks to respond to the President’s call

through implementing an innovative Agro-Forestry & Food Security Arbor Campaign that is built to address key societal needs in our country through:

- Planting 10 million trees in 5 phases within 5 years.

✓ 60 % fruit trees

✓ 40 % indigenous trees

- Training and educating enviro-guards to maintain and support the project.

- Creation and supporting of existing youth and women owned nursery enterprise.

This programme seeks to achieve its goal through Public Private Partnership (PPP). Government, private entities, and civic society can benefit on this programme

through public appeal, tax benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility donations (CSI), Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), Enterprise

Development (ED) and Skills Development (SD).

Project approach

The project implementation model for phase one is built as a pilot project that can be adopted at any local municipality. This model breaks down the approach to be applied as we plant 336 000 trees for 2021. Afterwards at 2 008 000 per year, at the end of 5 years would have planted a minimum of 10 000 000 trees.

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10 MILLION TREE INITIATIVEPROGRAMS AND INTERVENTIONS

NATIONAL

10 MILLION TREES

PROJECT

3HA COMMUNITY FORESTS

NATIONAL GENERATIONAL

NURSERIES

YOUTH AND WOMEN EXISTING NURSERIES

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GREEN BELTS

TREE BANK

25 000 SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE, 12

MILLION LEARNERS TO BENEFIT

TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS

COMMUNTY CARBON CREDIT

INVESTMENT

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NATIONAL GENERATIONAL NURSERIES

National youth and women programme which aims at empowering existing youth and women owned nurseries. These will be

empowered to produce the required capacity of trees national wide.

How it works:

• Through our existing and potential partnership with local municipalities and metros, youth and women owned existing nurseries

and Cooperatives will be identified, incubated, and trained for massive production of trees.

• Massive production of indigenous and fruit tree seedlings will be produced from the nurseries to feed into the 10 million trees.

Anticipated results:

• To have planted 10 million trees at the end of 5 years as pronounced by the president of the country.• Creation of market relationship between the indigenous tree nursery and carbon emitting entities.• Income generation, job creation from sales of trees to organizations and as well as government by the local emerging enterprises• Protect our natural habitats and the biodiversity within it.

TREE BANK• School learners to be identified in various schools nationwide, learners to be given trees from the local nurseries to go look after

them at their respective homes. Trees to be returned at certain Hight to be planted in the green belt in that community. Learner to

be incentivized according to the Hight of their trees.

• An exclusive leaner and institutions innovative green initiative with benefits such as bursaries, food, uniform, and learning

materials.

• Aim of the project is to create a sustainable strategy that will offer school leaners and students a secured educational support after successfully returning their trees back to be planted after looking after them in their homes.


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• GDF in collaboration with its partners will give out registered trees to adopted schools and selected social institutions.

• Each leaner will receive a tree to plant that will be presented at certain growth levels in exchange of vouchers.

• Vouchers will be assessed against growth in meters of the tree.

• Trained data processors will be employed nationally to support and maintain the integrity of the project.

• Through our partnership with the private sector, learners will receive vouchers up on returning the trees. These vouchers can be for food, school materials, and or

entertainment.


• Involvement of learners and their parents in the greening initiative through tree maintenance in their respective homes.

• Secured educational support for leaners

• Effective greening and support towards climate change initiative

• Job creation and poverty reduction

GREEN BELTS

Massive planting of fruit trees and indigenous trees within our cities and townships nationwide. The program aims at having a minimum of 278 green belts for each municipality

in South Africa. GDF aims to retain areas of largely abandoned and undeveloped land belonging to local communities and municipalities

How it works:

- Utilize abandoned land within municipalities for the green belts

- Each green belt should have a minimum of 1000 trees that comprise of indigenous and fruit trees

- Train and employ Enviro-Guards through EPWP model to maintain and protect the green belts throughout the country.


- Better land use of abandoned land in and around our cities.

- South Africa’s contribution towards global efforts to curb the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

- Improved living conditions and access to food through fruit trees.

- Massive green jobs creation


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COMMUNITY FOREST

Community-managed forests, when promoted by government policy and protected by secure community tenure rights, can help

provide income, produce food, and protect the environment for future generations.

How it works:

• Minimum of 3 hectares per community for creation of forests

• Forests to be managed and maintained by employed Enviro-Guards through the EPWP model from local surrounding areas.


• Goods such as timber, food, and bioproducts.

• Social and cultural benefits such as recreation, traditional resource uses and spirituality.

• Ecological functions such as carbon storage, nutrient cycling, water and air purification, and maintenance of wildlife habitat.


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WASTE MINIMISATION

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Waste Minimisation GDF seeks to respond to the call by the President for Good Green Deeds through:

• CLEAN CITIES - Integrated ward-based

model.

✓ Recycling-Impowering waste pickers through

establishment of recycling enterprise and

cooperatives nationwide

✓ Illegal Dump transformation – Through

community involvement, illegal dumps will

be cleaned and converted into;

✓ Community Garden

✓ Recreational Park

✓ Community Fruit trees spot

• Green Hour – Individuals, companies and institutions to dedicate one hour on a Friday afternoon to green hour. This can be done through adopting a spot next to your office for cleaning, doing green initiative to contribute to nation building efforts as we green our streets and homes.

The following should be achieved through these initiatives:

• Contribute towards global efforts to minimize

the impact of climate change

• Youth and Women enterprise development

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• Address the issue of food security through

food gardens

• Create enabling environment for kids to have

good environment for entertainment

• Encourage patriotism through donation of one hour for green hour to clean the surrounding.




• Government Agencies (SETA’s, NYDA, NDA,

SEFA, NLC,SALGA, etc.)



existing partners)



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WASTE MINIMIZATION

OBJECTIVES

THE 3RS

APPROACH

WASTE MINIMISATIONOVERVIEW

RECYCLING

ILLEGAL DUMP TRANSFORMATION

GREEN HOUR

Waste has come out to be a very important environmental problem in cities with high population density along with the population increase, fast and

unplanned urbanization.

The problems related to the increasing amount of waste show the importance of waste management aiming at production and consumption with very

little waste or no waste at all.

Insufficient importance placed on waste management, irregular disposal of garbage to nearby settlements, disposal on soil and in water sources

threatens the health of nature and environment. For this reason, it is necessary to collect, transport, store the waste and then to make them harmless

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Waste minimization is important because it helps protect the environment and it makes good business sense. In fact, businesses can

simultaneously manage both business and environmental objectives by focusing on waste minimization. GDF main objectives on

waste minimization comprises of the following:

• Reduced regulatory burdens and compliance costs.

• Building better community relations.

• Minimizing short- and long-term liability.

• Creating safer working conditions for employees.

• Protecting human health and the environment.

• Demonstrating environmental leadership.

The Three R’s

REDUCE RECOVER REUSE

Minimizing theamount of waste

we generate.

Recovering wastematerials and

finding ways torecycle them.

Disposing of wastesafely, effectively

and reusing.

WASTE MINIMISATIONOBJECTIVES

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GDF approach in waste minimization will be conveyed through three major pillars, namely Recycling, Illegal dump transformation and Green Hour:

Recycling

• Enterprise development • Job creation • Eco-Innovation

Illegal Dump Transformation

• Community gardens• Recreational parks/social parks• Tree planting

Green Hour

• Fridays• Volunteerism • Adopt A Spot

WASTE MINIMISATIONINTERVENTIONS

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Recycling

Our world is changing rabidly due to the rapid economic development, and the resulted significant increase in the number of producedwastes. As a result, the environmental benefits of recycling have become a major component of waste management programs. Since it cancost more for community members to bring waste to a recycler than to throw it away, there is a need for new teaching methodology andmaterials in the waste management sector that allows the crucial implementation of the recycling concept in the creation of all the newdesigns and products. Then recyclers can learn how to create new designs from recycled materials since it became essential and a must.

GDF through this project seek to empower and promote local and informal recyclers to start and run cooperatives in order to stay relevantand grow in the industry where few seems to be benefiting. The collaborative method of waste collectors and recyclers enhances therecycling of considerable amount of waste and helps recyclers to stay in business. Thus, the recyclers and waste pickers will be trained on theadvanced methods of picking and sorting at source and necessary tools and equipment will be provided to support their day-to-dayactivities.

Illegal dump transformation

Illegal dumping occurs when items determined to be waste, such as appliances, auto parts, construction and demolition debris, furniture,

household trash, scrap tires, and yard waste, are disposed of in nonpermitted areas.

GDF illegal dump rehabilitation process will involve:

• Educate the public through the schools and through community awareness groups about the costs, chemical hazards and dangers incurred

by illegal dumping

• Create safe, public-friendly waste disposal options and advertise them

• Create laws that impose stiff fines for the perpetrators and advertise these stiff fines

• Use social media to ask the public to identify the perpetrators

• Follow through with quick illegal dump clean up.

• Convert the illegal dump into a Community garden, social park or fruit trees planting area.


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GREEN HOUR

On every Fridays, employers are encouraged to give their employee’s a "green hour" for unstructured playing, cleaning, and interaction with the

natural world. Whether in the backyard, the local park, or a green space farther afield, time spent outdoors is essential to the healthy development of

minds, bodies, and spirits.

Employees, landlords and leaders of institutions may encourage staff, tenants, or colleagues to make a change for just one hour, they might see thebenefits linger long after. Here are some ideas to consider for the Green Hour:

• Adopt a spot next to your home, institution or work-place to clean for an hour on a Friday.

• Host a potluck lunch so your fellow workers will not have to drive out for their lunch hour.

• Get your colleagues to use all reusable containers for one day’s lunch.

• Encourage everyone to use the stairs instead of the elevator for one hour.

• Invite a local expert in to give a one-hour talk about a topic related to sustainability.

• Conduct a tour of your office to point out all the green features that your building/company may have.

• Organize a volunteer effort where everyone in your office donates one hour of their time to a local community project

QUICK WINS

This project provides some of the most tangible rewards of any anticrime program. The results are immediately visible. People might even stop to join

you while you’re still working. Children may come out of their houses and wait eagerly to use the cleaned park. And as your volunteers walk, skate, or

drive by the site, each one will take pride in knowing that he or she helped regain an attractive, usable space for the neighbourhood. This project

benefits the communities as follows:

• Improves the appearance of an area that was previously neglected, abandoned, vandalized, or misused.

• Allows community members to use and enjoy the improved area more than they did before the clean-up.

• Strengthens the community ties of those involved in the project.

• Attracts support and resources.

Makes people feel safer and better about being members of their community.


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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND AWARENESS

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Education and Awareness

GDF, through its National Greening Campaign, Buti Green will:

• Produce Comic Book- This book will be used

to educate school learners about the key

aspects of our project.

• Digital Platform-Mass publication of our

activities in the digital platform for global

reach.

• National Greening Champion Awards- Buti Green to reward people, institutions and municipalities that are leading in the greening initiative.

The following should be achieved under this programme:

• Increased level of awareness towards

environmental concerns

• Demonstrate South Africa’s efforts in curbing

climate change impact to the global

community.

• Encourage maximum participation through

awards

• Educate the nation about environmental values








existing partners)



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Environmental Education and Awareness

Environmental Education is a process in which individuals gain awareness of their environment and acquire knowledge, skills, values, experiences and, also the determination

which will enable them to act individually and collectively to solve present and future environmental problems.

The goal of environmental education and awareness is to develop a world population that is aware of, and concerned about environment and its associated problems, and which

has the knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations, and commitment to work individually and collectively towards solutions of current and the prevention of new one.

WASTE MANAGEMENT ENERGY SAVING TREE PLANTING

THE WET MODEL

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND AWARENESSWET MODEL

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Buti green is our national greening champion mascot, pertaining to this project our national mascot will be addressing

the good green deeds, through education.

GDF’s environmental champion mascot “Buti Green” will conduct awareness campaigns educating and engaging with

school kids using the comic book to address the good green deeds.

The comic book will be comprising of the three topics, that is waste management, energy saving and tree planting.

For school children the main focus will be on tree planting as they will be given trees to grow at their homes.

Buti green will be engaging with them on how to grow the tree, how to irrigate the tree and how to maintain it.

Buti Green on Green Hour

1. Environmental Clean-up

Through the green hour model Buti Green will be educating the community on waste management, which includes

sorting of waste, and the importance of keeping our environment clean.

2. Tree bank, Community forests, green belts, and Nursery

Education and Awareness will be given to the communities on how they can best ensure that the tree bank, community

forests, green belts and Nurseries becomes successful.

3. Print Media

Green Ribbons - There will be distribution of the green ribbons, during green hour people will be cleaning the

environment wearing green ribbons. The reason for the usage of green is that green represents nature, growth, taking

action and mental health, in which all of this are interconnected.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND AWARENESSBUTI GREEN “ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMPION”

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FLYERS, POSTERS, EBOOKS

Green development foundation will ensure distribution of the flyers, posters to get everyone engaged in the program

DIGITAL PLATFORMS

Advertisements on TV, radio interviews, social networks e.g., eBooks on the GDF YouTube channel so people can get a clear

understanding of what the project is all about

ENERGY SAVING

The community will be educated and made aware of energy saving. The more we save energy the less is for the coal to be burned to

produce electricity as a result we will be saving our planet from excessive amount of air pollution.

AMBASSODORS

Involving ambassadors to our program attracts people to participate.

The following are activities that we will do:

• National green champions awards.

• Municipalities green belts competition.

• School competition.

“We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the

power to determine the future.”

-Paul Kagame

President of Rwanda

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND AWARENESSMARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND PR

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENTOVERVIEW

GDF through this project anticipates creating employment coupled with skills for a minimum of 850 000 personnel and assisting 12 million leaners with sustainable

educational.

RECRUITMENTS

• Participants will be recruited from local communities in consultation with the Municipality.

• The preferences will be given to Youth, women and disable people.

• Leaners will be recruited through the schools

TRAININGS

• GDF will ensure that all personnel working is adequately trained prior to the commencement of the project.

• A training programme indicating the training programs available and to be completed, and how continued training will be implemented for the duration of the

project to maintain standards or improve the quality-of-service delivery, will be made available before the commencement of the project.

• The deployed staff will be provided with the necessary training required to carry out the work. Training to be provided will include, cleaning equipment, customer

service, occupational health and safety and on-site induction.

BURSARY SUPPORT

• Each leaner that will receive a tree will exchange throughout its growth and have access to food, uniform as well as educational support in terms of bursaries

• Data processors employed will be responsible to monitor and evaluate the leaners throughout their educational growth.

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Recruitment and Training

• Recruitment will be done through

community and municipal structures.

• Credit bearing and Non-credit bearing training will be provided to the beneficiaries

• Community empowerment through job

Creation

• Skills development








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Monitoring and Evaluation

• GDF will use standard monitoring and

evaluation to ensure accountability through

the implementation of the project

• Ensure anticipated outcomes are achieved

• Hold responsible parties accountable

• Reporting to the donors and partners

Project Lead: Buffalo City Metropolitan Development Agency

Project Facilitator: Green Development Foundation through Buti Green

Project Duration: 5 Years (2021 – 2025)

Trees to be planted: 1 Million Trees

Areas to be Covered: Buffalo City Metropolitan

Key Implementing partners: BCMD and private sector, and civil society organizations and stakeholders.

Implementation Strategy: Project to be implemented in phases for five years

Implementation Model: Integration of EPWP & Assets-Based Community Development (ABCD)

Jobs to be Created: 2000 – 5000 for the duration of the project

Project Financing Model: Public – Private Partnership

• Private Sector



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MONITORING AND EVALUATIONFRAMEWORK

GDF will ensure weekly and monthly reporting meeting are done internally and externally with

stakeholders in order to effectively Monitor and evaluate the projects performance.

Monitoring and Evaluation will guide and ensure the bellow are adhered to:

Accountability: demonstrating to donors, taxpayers, beneficiaries and implementing partners

that expenditure, actions, and results are as agreed or can reasonably be expected in the

situation.

Operational management: provision of the information needed to co-ordinate the human,

financial and physical resources committed to the project or programme, and to improve

performance.

Strategic management: provision of information to inform setting and adjustment of objectives

and strategies.

Capacity building: building the capacity, self-reliance and confidence of beneficiaries and

implementing staff and partners to effectively initiate and implement development initiatives

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SCOPE OF PREVIOUS WORKPROJECT REFERENCES

• The GDF has recently completed a project which was awarded in 2017 on cleaning Ekurhuleni CBD known as the Enviro Guards in partnership with the National

Lotteries Commission. The project created employment opportunities of more than 300 people.

• GDF was involved in the stimulation and layout of the Presidential campaign of Good Green Deeds in 2019.

• GDF successfully facilitated Nelson Mandela centenary in partnership with Nelson Mandela Foundation in 2017.

• GDF played a significant role in the planning and implementing of OR Tambo centenary

• GDF is currently serving under the Keep Ekurhuleni Clean Project with more than 500 employees doing litter picking and illegal dumpsite clean-ups and conversions.

• GDF is a project partner with the Department of Forestry and Fisheries to plant 1 Million trees per annum.

• GDF has provided vegetable garden starter packs to more than 15 000 households to encourage backyard gardens since 2017.

• Under the back-to-school campaign-garden maintenance and tree planting project at schools with the City of Ekurhuleni. GDF has planted more than 25 000 trees in

schools throughout Ekurhuleni since 2017.

• GDF successfully completed an Eco guides project in Tembisa.

• GDF has an annual schools gardening competition in more than 400 schools in Limpopo.

• GDF runs a land reform beneficiary full spectrum consultancy service in Limpopo primarily aiming to increase youth participation in agriculture

• In 2016, GDF planted 5000 trees in a tree planting project in Mamelodi

• In July 2018, GDF embarked on a successful rooftop gardening project. The project was done on the rooftop of the Time for Change Community Development Shelter

building for the disadvantaged, in continuation of the spirit of service since the Nelson Mandela Centenary celebration.

• GDF in association with PIKITUP and various stakeholders in the Emaplatini community in Orlando, Soweto, undertook a community clean up initiative as part of the

Nelson Mandela Centenary celebrations in July 2018.

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