Green Botswana Trust

What is Climate Change?
Long-term changes in temperatures and weather.

Why is it an issue?
This has led to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Eg drought, flooding, extreme heat.

Does this impact our food & environment?
Too much rain leads to crops & plants rotting. Extreme heat makes it difficult to grow food to feed ourselves and our animals.
Freezing temperatures stunt plant growth.

Special thank you to Botswana students at Maru-a-P**a School for their tireless work even during school holidays

Today we celebrated World Environment Day! 🌳🪴

In the run up to World Environment Day, we at have been invited to give training yo students Form 1 to Form 6 at Enko schools. The topics covered were Climate Change and the History of World Environment Day

Today, we delivered trees to Enko School in Block 6, Gaborone. This in the run-up to planting day to commemorate World EnvironmentL Day in June

Today was the launch of the Botswana Association of Family Physicians . Green Botswana Trust was asked to speak about our healthy planet.
Thank you to Dr Claire Brockbank and the Asssociation for giving us an opportunity to present our work

This weekend, Greenbotswana Trust was invited to the farm off the Molepolole Road. They have an apple orchard, and citrus orchard and hybrid vegetables growing.
We look forward to watching the farm develop to incorporate a tea garden amongst their fruit orchards.

On Monday we held a training session at SOS Children's Home. We were joined by our partners

SOS now have a Climate Society! Students will have their Society tour shortly to share their Climate Action Roadmap

Happy Earth Day! 🌎
We are sowing our flower seeds for the third time this summer. The temperature has dropped from 37C to 31C. The previous seedlings have been scorched by the sun 🌞 🌺🇧🇼

Today, we were invited to the handover of Mmokolodi Football Grounds from Judge Ian Kirby to Mmokolodi Swallows. Greenbotswana Trust Mmokolodi Indigenous Nurseries donated trees to the grounds.

Long awaited rains on the farm 💦🌺🍃
Flyza Minnelli and friends finally get to swim after 6 months of no water 🦢🦢🦢🦢

Our very first fruit harvest!
In November 2020 we gifted Mmokolodi village residents with 336 trees.
Today Miss Mphaphe has brought her first fruit harvest 🍐
#🇧🇼

Happy International Day of Forests
With the help of students, medics, teaching staff and village residents we have planted over 3,600 trees since 2020.
Trees
•Produce the oxygen we need to survive
•They provide the shade we need on hot days
•They flower and fruit, providing us with medicines
and food
•Their root system provides soil stabilisation
•They are homes to insects, mammals and birds
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

Happy Womens Day to all the women who organised events for the thousands of trees we have planted 🥳🥳🥳

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Today went with Maru A P**a Form 6s to Regent Hill International School. The school runs on solar energy mounted on their classroom roof.
Maru A P**a School students are looking to instal a similar system at MAP that will reduce their energy bills and carbon footprint. 🌳🐾

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This weekend Maru a P**a Form 6s came to the GreenBotswana Trust garden nursery to volunteer. The work they did included repotting, watering, making cuttings, and creating clear paths to make plants accessible to the customer.
Thank you Maru-a-P**a School ❤️🌳

Good Morning folks. This year we are committed to brining information to Batswana, in order for them to apply for climate change programs abroad. Below is a CNN Academy for Climate Story Telling. Applications open later this year 👇🏾

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We’re particularly interested in leaders who are:

🌱 Advocating for progressive climate policies
🌱 Enhancing current decarbonised energy technologies such as solar and wind
🌱 Improving access to decarbonised energy
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Good Morning folks!
This year we have great plans for :
•Create 2 more 100 Tree Community Fruit Orchards
•Hold Botswana’s 1 national Climate Change Youth
Summit
•Identify and train students who can go for training
abroad
•Continue as Advisors and Industry Teachers at
Cambridge University
•Launch our Digital Tree Mapping with Cornell
University, New York

We are looking for companies we can partner with on any of these grand plans 🌳🇧🇼🌳🇧🇼🌳

Happy International Day of Clean Energy!
The Botswana government and UNDP have launched a pilot to install Biogas plants up and down the country.
Via an application form from the Department of Energy, GreenBotswana Trust were fortunate to have the Biogas plant built FREE by BWgovernment ♻️

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⚙️ addressing the climate crisis through innovative technologies?
📚 advancing climate education?
🌱 safeguarding ecosystems against land degradation?

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Repost: United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya