Tag: awareness and education

In order to attract sponsorship and investment into PTP to achieve our goals, the need to raise local awareness is an essential one. We participate wherever we can (events, festivals, etc.) to educate the public on our endeavours, and to work together as a community to maintain the natural beauty for which the Garden Route is known.

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Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness Initiative – Mzoxolo Pre-Primary School

Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness Initiative - Mzoxolo Pre-Primary School Precious Tree Project

SITE #2: Mzoxolo Pre-Primary School

Mzoxolo Pre-Primary and Lawaaikamp Creche is a small school situated in the industrial area of Lawaaikamp, Thembalethu, in George. The school accommodates approximately 600 children, between the ages of 3 and 7 years (Creche and Grade R learners). There are 6 classes of  3-4 year old learners and 6 classrooms of Grade R learners (of which 3 are situated at the Primary School across the street).

The school is situated in a low-income community, where many of the community members live around the breadline and where unemployment levels are high. Fundraising  from within the Lawaaikamp and Thembalethu communities is not a possibility and the pre-primary school is heavily reliant on external,  outside-the-community funding to support the school’s maintenance and upliftment requirements.

Aside from a few trees in the front area, the grounds are absent of trees for shade and privacy from the noisy surrounds of the industrial area. 

The staff and learners of Mzoxolo Pre-Primary School, Lawaaikamp Creche & The Precious Tree Project Team Say THANK YOU WMO!

Check out the Youtube video below!


If you would like to sponsor an indigenous tree click here OR visit https://www.payfast.co.za/donate/go/precioustreeproject.

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Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness Initiative – Mzoxolo Primary School

Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness Initiative - WMO Mzoxolo Primary School 13 Oct 2022 Precious Tree Project

SITE #1: Mzoxolo Primary School

The Mzoxolo Primary School is situated in Lawaaikamp in George – a low income area where many of the community members live around the breadline and are largely unemployed. The school consists of 1500 learners from Grade 2 to Grade 7 with an average of 40 learners per class. Fundraising for the school from within the community is not a possibility and the school is reliant on external / outside-the-community funding to support the school and its upliftment requirements. To-date, the school relies on the limited funding provided by the Department of Education.

There is a small existing vegetable garden that feeds a small soup kitchen (linked to the Dpt. of Health’s introduction of a nutrition program for learners in 2021) that is in need of fruit trees and vegetable seedlings.

The staff and learners of Mzoxolo Primary School & The Precious Tree Project Team Say THANK YOU WMO!

Check out the Youtube video below!


If you would like to sponsor an indigenous tree click here OR visit https://www.payfast.co.za/donate/go/precioustreeproject.

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A Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness Collaboration with the World Memon Organisation

A Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness Collaboration

Precious Tree Project is collaborating with the World Memon Organisation – Youth Wing Africa Chapter in a Youth Tree Planting and Environmental Awareness initiative in George Municipality. The initiative will be focusing on planting out a combination of indigenous trees and fruit trees at a number of primary schools and learning centres in underprivileged communities in the George Municipality. We selected TEN primary schools/education centres where we spent the day planting and discussing the benefits of trees. 

A really BIG Thank you to WMO – African Youth Wing for investing in our local schools and facilitating a journey  of opening the minds of these learners a little wider to the numerous benefits of trees and the importance of the natural environment in our own health and well-being.

https://www.facebook.com/wmoworld | wmoworld.org

Watch this space and follow our WMO Africa Youth Wing Environmental Awareness journey with the staff and learners of the participating schools.