Where we work

Good Earth Trust

Where we work:

Where we work:

Sub-Saharan Africa is a region that today faces huge challenges but also has huge potential to meet these challenges in far more sustainable ways than the West has.

Given the widespread poverty and expected population growth (see information box), there is set to be massive demand for new housing, infrastructure and community facilities in the very near future. If the region's current environmental problems, not to mention global climate change, are to be prevented from destroying natural resources upon which people also depend, this demand must be met with environmentally sustainable methods.

Contrary to popular belief, such methods do not have to be high-tech, costly and dependent on Western investment: African technologies exist which meet the environmental challenge and are appropriate to the situation - they just need to be noticed!

The Good Earth Trust currently has projects in Kenya and Uganda, East Africa. Please see below for more details.

Countries we work in:

Sub-Saharan Africa: some challenges

- One of the world's fastest growing populations (2.2%). Expected to reach 1 billion by 2025

- 300 million people do not have access to safe drinking water

- 64% of the population do not have access to adequate sanitation

- Average life expectancy is 46

- Deforestation rates far exceed the global annual average of 0.8%

- By 2025 the region's capacity to produce food will be reduced by 30%

Map of East Africa, the area of sub-Saharan Afrcia that the Good Earth Trust currently works in

Kenya

The Good Earth Trust has been working in Kenya since 2007, and is currently involved with some exciting projects using ISSB technology, ranging from the 'Slum-Challenge' project, in partnership with UN Habitat, which is training local youths to construct their own youth resource centre, to a project which is rehabilitating prisoners by providing vocational training in ISSB through the construction of sanitation and water-tank facilities which benefit the local community.

To learn more about these projects and others, click here

The Good Earth Trust's Country Representative in Kenya is Sophie Mills. Please contact her if you have any questions about the projects in Kenya:

Sophie Mills
Good Earth Trust
Nairobi, Kenya

Uganda

The Good Earth Trust has been active in Uganda since 2007, helping to promote ISSB technology in the country where it was first developed. The projects include one funded by the BodyShop Foundation to construct 25 rainwater-harvesting tanks in the remote village of Nakyenyi, and also successful campaigns to persuade several Ugandan and UK NGOs to adopt ISSB technology in their construction projects for schools and clinics.

To learn more about these projects and others, click here

The Good Earth Trust's Country Representative in Uganda is Lisa Baumgartner. Please contact her if you have any questions about the projects in Uganda:

Lisa Baumgartner
Good Earth Trust
Kampala, Uganda