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Conserve Africa (CA) is a UK-based registered charity that aims to promote sustainable development through development education, public awareness, capacity building and the relief of poverty and the environment of the conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities. CA recognises that these poor communities depend solely on available local natural resources and ecosystems for their survival and that poverty reduction agenda should take into account the growing interrelationship and interdependence between the environment, natural resource and poverty.
Natural Resource Management
We aim to support local communities to sustainably manage their natural resource base through a combination of modern and traditional knowledge, technologies and practices. This include strengthening the local communities' capacity to conserve and manage their natural resource base, training and awareness raising on sustainable land-use systems; securing rights to land, empowering local communities to cope with drought and the harsh African climate. We will organise projects that aims to integrate indigenous knowledge practices and innovations into conservation and sustainable use and management of natural resources.
Wildlife, Forests and Ecotourism
We participate in international and community campaigns and actions (e.g. education, training, research, documentation, community work) to save endangered species from commercial exploitation, habitat destruction, and cruelty. We work with communities to conserve and protect endangered wildlife and ecosystems through grassroots projects and through ecotourism that contributes to promoting sustainable local development and generating benefits for the poor.
Health, Safe Water and Sanitation
We aim to improve sustainable access to clean water and adequate sanitation - particularly the Millennium Development Goal for Water and the equivalent target for sanitation in schools and communities; protecting natural water resources and raising awareness about hygiene and sanitation in schools and villages; and support preventive measures to reduce environmental-related diseases such as waterborne diseases, acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, measles, malaria, HIV infections and malnutrition, etc.
Climate Change
We aim to empower and help poor communities to act on global climate change challenges through the application of local solutions that generate local benefits including home-grown technologies and practices such as: energy saving, use of solar energy and natural resource development in drought prone areas. We will work with other stakeholders to highlight the potential impact of the current and projected climate changes on African agriculture and to identify ways and means to adapt and mitigate its detrimental impact, including the integration of local traditional and indigenous knowledge in climate change mitigation programmes.
Development Education and Advocacy
We will organise or participate in international campaigning and development education activities to advance the cause of the environment and social justice by highlighting the interlinks between poverty and the environment, and the achievement of the environment and sustainable development aspects of the Millennium Development Goals. We will organise campaign and lobbying work in UK to increasing public awareness and understanding of the realities of African development challenges to mobilise development assistance to facilitate the changes required to promote greater justice.
Without donations from supporters our work would not be possible, and every penny we are given is a great help towards our work.
You can make an Online Donation or by making a cheque or postal order payable to Conserve Africa.
Your donation can make a real difference to the lives of the poorest communities in Africa.
We can assure you that whatever you donate will be put to good use immediately; and that we will use your money as efficiently as possible.
Registered Charity No: 1098921
Your donation will support our efforts to help poor communities to lift themselves and their families out of poverty and hunger through sustainable use of natural resource that increases in farm productivity, food security and incomes.
The following are example of projects that can be supported by your donation:
- Education and awareness raising about unsustainable resource use and help communities to find alternatives;
- Promoting natural resource-based income generating activities for example, bee-keeping, carpentry, priority high-value agroforestry tree species , ecotourism, sustainable timber harvesting, and fish farming, and the marketing of their produce;
- Promoting wild plant foods which can contribute substantially to household food and livelihood security for communities ( e.g cultivation of indigenous fruit and medicinal trees in home gardens, schools and communities.);
- Undertaking skills training for farmers and extension workers;
- Organising local and international campaign against poaching of wild animals;
- Organising community education and awareness about the importance of clean water, management and protection of water resources;
- Clean water, sanitation and hygiene education in schools;
- Enabling local people to have access to solar lighting and also providing the opportunity for an enabling environment for school going children to study at home using solar electricity; for rural health centres and water supply;
- Collection, propagation and conservation of important wild species, with emphasis on economic, endemic and endangered species;
- Tree planting and awareness raising about the importance of tropical forests in reducing global warming.
My name is Joel Thompson from UK. After being accepted by Conserve Africa to intern in Africa, I was matched with the Cameroon branch of NGO the Royal Commonwealth Society (http://www.rcsint.org/society.)
I spent one month there drawing up a sustainable livelihood project to benefit the people of a small local village called Kurume. Together we built up a project under the approval of the local chief to implement a diverse range of initiatives to achieve the sustainable and booming dream the locals had for their village. A project proposal for "Kurume Project" was completed, and, with much hard work and the support of a diverse network of volunteers, we launched the project on Friday 14th September. We pray the project will grow from strength to strength for the good of the people.
I will continue to volunteer my time to managing and coordinating events with the members of Royal Commonwealth Society in Cameroon into the future. Returning was an emotional experience and settling back home a challenge. But I'm so glad to have gone and have learnt so much that there's not a day I regret spending there. My every need was catered for and I was looked after very well by my hosts. I can't thank them enough for that, they made my trip as safe and enjoyable as it was.
The trip was a great success and I look forward to staying involved with the project long in to the future.