THE NOURISH FOUNDATION
Growing Resilient Wildlife Communities
OUR STORY
Started in 2011, Nourish was created as a platform linking conservation with community issues and ideals, finding integrated sustainable solutions to issues plaguing conservation such as poverty, low levels of education, food insecurity, and unemployment. Through a series of grassroots, community-led interventions we have walked the talk over the last decade, in order to establish what works in a wildlife community landscape. Projects and programming that will be impactful, needed, and ultimately make a long-term sustainable impact.
We have rolled all our learnings of intercultural and intergenerational experience into what we now consider a solid replicable community development 'model'. Solutions to break the poverty cycle and create healthy resilient communities, are ultimately those that link individuals and communities back to their wildlife heritage.
THE CHALLENGE
Sustained underdevelopment and unemployment remain the key challenges facing the rural wildlife villages adjacent to the Kruger National Park. These situations of rural poverty are not simply isolated circumstances of material deprivation but are perpetual situations of dis-empowerment.
The conservation area of the Kruger National Park and the surrounding private nature reserves have issues just as big as those that lie in the communities. Poaching/illegal killing of wildlife has become a daily threat to conservation with rhino poaching, as well as lion, elephant, pangolin, and vulture. Animals are being killed for their horns, hide, bones or skins in an effort to generate income to support their families.
KEY FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS
Conservation
- Natural resource use.
- Human environmental damage & protecting biodiversity.
- Climate change - Pollution, recycling and waste management.
Resilience
- Youth focused poverty and inequality.
- Climate change resilience according to water & food access.
- Social impact of health related issues.
Sustainability
- Supply chains and ecological footprint of products.
- Renewable energy and green/eco infrastructure.
- Disruption in rural technology access.
SUSTAINABLE IMPACT DELIVERY MODEL
WHY
To create sustainable development and solutions in wildlife buffer zones that protects the natural environment.
HOW
Growing resilient wildlife communities through engagement in conservation and sustainability
WHAT
Programming designed around education, enterprise and tourism (E.E.T) .delivered through an eco-village model
19
SCHOOLS WITH NOURISH ENVIRONMENTAL & LEARNING SUPPORT
364
PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN IMPACTED THROUGH THE RISE CRECHE PROGRAM PER YEAR
110,000
INDIGENOUS TREES GROWN & DISTRIBUTED, AND COUNTING
5840
KIDS TAKEN ON WILDLIFE IMMERSION FIELD TRIPS
CONSULTATION
We specialize in providing expert service to fill your community impact needs.
B-BBEE Compliance and Corporate Social Investment
Provide transparent and facilitated B-BBEE investment opportunities and impactful CSI guidance
Programme and Project Design and Implementation
With years of experience in program and project design and in-field implementation, we offer meaningful and well-designed projects with socio economic and environmental benefits
Sustainable Enterprise Development
Offer a platform and guidance on authentic, relevant and realistic social enterprise development in rural wildlife communities as well as access-to-market and franchise opportunities
Rural and Community Development
Enable sustainable development advice and collaboration opportunities
Our Team
Nourish Foundation Board
Senior Team Members
