Kigezi Biodiversity Sanctuary

Organization

Good Samaritan Uganda

Project

Project Regions

Countries or Areas

Uganda

Religious Traditions

Christianity

Summary of Activity

This project aims to restore ecosystems by tree planting and sensitizing/educating communities and schools about caring for the environment. The project is initially for three years but since it is about ecosystems restoration, it will continue. The target population is the more than 50,000 people of Kabale and Rukiga Districts and the schools in these two districts.

Impact

The project has planted over 100,000 trees and impacted 268 families and 2800 students. Over 10,000 people have been sensitized on environmental protection.

Ecosystems

Impact Areas

SDG Addressed

Learn More

Good Samaritan Uganda Website

Project Images

Good Samaritan team donating trees to a School in Rukiga District, Uganda

A beneficiary of tree seedlings from Good Samaritan Uganda

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Background

In September 2020, UNEP’s Faith for Earth Initiative, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, United Religions Initiative, and Bhumi Global published a report to celebrate the five year anniversary of the UN Sustainability Development Goals. The report featured data they had collected on faith-based organizations around the world doing work that fell within the scope of the environmental SDGs.

Only a fraction of the collected data was used in the written report, so these organizations partnered with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology to bring the complete information to the public here on this site as a living, evolving, searchable database. Additional organizations and projects are added on a quarterly basis. This listing is not meant to be a comprehensive overview of any group’s activities, but rather the progress of specific projects towards the environmental SDGs. For more information on a group or a project, visit their website using the links provided on the individual project page.

If your faith-based organization is working on a project that falls within the environmental SDGs, and you wish to be included in this list, please fill out our submission form. See the form for required project criteria.

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