The Green Trust
The Green Trust has its headquarters located in Pakalinding. We work closely with communities, schools and individuals to promote our environmentally friendly programmes. The organisation focuses on community involvement and seeks to empower communities to plan, participate in and implement their own development projects. Areas of intervention • The environment, particularly raising seedlings, reforestation and the sensitisation of communities on the impact of deforestation and pollution. • Education: establishing “Green Clubs” in schools and school based orchards. • Health: Malaria/ HIV and AIDS. The Green Trust is an organisation that works closely with communities and as a team to ensure that projects are implemented well. We are organised by producing quarterly narrative reports, bi-annual financial reports and an annual report to document our project achievements each year. • We have a gender sensitive board with 4 males and 4 females who are elected through our Annual General Meeting to serve a 3 year term. • We monitor projects through weekly visits to the field and share our findings with each other at our bi-monthly team meetings. We engage with government through our work with the Regional Forestry Office and the Regional Health Team. Our donors have been UNDP and the Community Driven Development Project (CDDP). |
The Green Trust is a Community Based Organisation which seeks to empower communities and individuals to take ownership of their environment and strive to protect it. The Green Trust was formed in March 2006 by 10 environmentally conscious youths from across the Lower River Region. Our motivation for starting the organisation originated from the awareness of environmental degradation occurring at an alarming rate in The Gambia and our common goal to protect the environment. • UNDP funded our ‘community participation in the management of forests and protected areas’ project in 2010 for 6 months. The Green Trust trained 2 communities in Pakalinding and Kanuma in environmental protection and preservation to inform them of the consequences of environmental degradation and effect change in the community’s attitude towards the environment. • In 2008 The Green Trust, partnered with a Regional Health Team for a year using our own source of fundsto sensitise 3 communities in the Lower River Region on Malaria prevention and control. The sensitised communities were provided with 500 treated nets to help prevent Malaria. CONTACT US The Green Trust Address: Pakalinding Youth Centre Complex, Lower River Region,The Gambia Tel: (220) 999 6706/ 6266 440/ 9828 678/ 7825 690 Email: [email protected] |