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Day Tour Name: ALEXANDRA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TOUR Itinerary This half-day tour departs daily from 26 August to 4 September taking
12 delegates at a time. Not far from the Summit, is one of the oldest,
poorest and most densely populated areas of Johannesburg: Alexandra.
Here you'll find overcrowded shacks, run down hostels - and newly built
houses with beautiful gardens. On your tour you will see one of government's
largest, multi-faceted, integrated urban renewal projects that entails
poverty alleviation, environmental renewal and economic development.
You'll stop at the Gateway where you'll view displays and photographic
exhibitions on Alex and experience a unique craft and curio market.
Look at the site where the indigenous forest is being planted and arrange
for a tree to be planted in your name. You may have a taste of Alex
cuisine before you sign the visitors' book and drive to visit the house
Nelson Mandela lived in for 3 years. The tour then takes in the Catholic
Church, the Pan Africa commercial hub, the Iputheng cluster of four
schools, the cleared Jukskei River, and finally the award-winning garden
at River Park. Come to Alex to see ordinary people's efforts to improve
their lives and implement UN environmental agreements. For more information or to make a reservation, please contact Day Tour Name: BANARENG SCHOOL
DEVELOPMENT TOUR
This half-day tour runs only six times on 26 - 28 August taking 14
delegates at a time. You will visit the Banareng Primary School in
Atteridgeville outside Pretoria, which feeds 670 school children from
their organic vegetable garden on their school grounds. Children no
longer complain of headaches and dizziness caused by hunger. They have
a self-sustaining garden with indigenous plants, roses in the cut-flower
section, a rockery developed on old tyres painted by the children,
a typical indigenous SA garden and the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon." The
gardens are included in the school curriculum and form an interactive
educational programme; it teaches pupils about vegetable production,
land management, water conservation, alien plants, and recycling. The
project demonstrates, too, how to avoid the use of pesticides and is
compatible with the objectives of the Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants. Once a week the children bring grey water from home to
water the garden, and plastics for re-cycling. You will also visit
an informal settlement where the pupils live. Come to Banareng and
be inspired by seeing how planting organic vegetable gardens can make
a difference to children's lives and contribute to the implementation
of UN environmental agreements. For more information or to make a reservation, please contact Worldchoice
on 011- 463 4300 or Day Tour Name: RIETVLEI WETLANDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TOUR
This half-day tour departs daily from 26 August to 4 September taking
14 delegates at a time. It takes you to the Rietvlei Nature Reserve
to view a Working for Wetland model of wetland rehabilitation that
is premised on labour intensive methods and capacity building so as
to contribute to poverty alleviation. The Reserve is owned and managed
by the City of Pretoria/Tshwane containing the Rietvlei Dam that provides
15% of Pretoria's water and Bankenveld grassland that is under threat
in the Gauteng region. At Witkoppies in the Southern Peatland area
you'll view a gabion in the process of being built. (You can add a
stone if you'd like to contribute to the rehabilitation process!) You'll
also be able to experience how the smell of sewerage-water dissipates
as the wetland does its work. You'll be able to squeeze fresh, clean
water from a 7 000 year old piece of peat. The rehabilitation of Rietvlei
is important because it a) promotes waste water purification through
the natural systems of reeds and peat, b) addresses the control of
alien, invasive plant species, c) protects vital habitats associated
with the globally important grasslands ecosystems, d) exemplifies innovation
in combating land degradation, e) creates wetland awareness and education
and f) stems the emission of carbon stored in peat substrate. Come
to Rietvlei to see a homegrown model of poverty alleviation through
wetland rehabilitation that improves people's lives and implements
UN environmental agreements. For more information or to make a reservation, please contact Worldchoice
on 011- 463 4300 or Day Tour Name: SOWETO ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
TOUR Itinerary This half-day tour departs daily from 26 August to 4 September taking
14 delegates at a time. It gives you the opportunity to experience
what residents in this vibrant, culturally rich township situated on
the outskirts of Johannesburg are doing to improve the environment
they live. Each morning and afternoon tour will visit the Soweto Mountain
of Hope (SOMOHO) project that has changed the once dangerous and barren
Tshiawelo Koppie into an art, culture and environmental hub for the
local community. SOMOHO's working groups include: turning waste into
art; catering in traditional South African meals; drumming circles
and performances; Children Loving Nature after-school programme; and
organic gardening. Each afternoon tour will also visit the Soweto Ecohouse,
the first energy-saving house to be built in Soweto. It achieves natural
thermal comfort for Johannes Malahlela and his family, thereby reducing
energy consumption and the need to burn fossil fuels or consume large
amounts electricity. The Ecohouse will also be visit during the morning
tours on 31 August and 1 September. On those mornings when Ecohouse
is not visited (i.e. 26 to 30 Aug & 2 to 4 Sept) the
tour will include a visit to Kliptown and a drive past Winnie Mandela's
Squatter Camp and Walter Sisulu Freedom Square. Come to Soweto to see
ordinary people's efforts to improve their lives and implement UN environmental
agreements. Our partners:
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