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Zambia Nonprofit Promoting Reforestation, New Online Collaboration Platform.

Rain Drops Community Foundation, a grassroots nonprofit org based in Silundu, in the Western Province of Zambia, announces its new online collaboration and fundraising platform.

Following the recent announcement, the nonprofit has created a new online hub with the goal of connecting with a larger community, gaining more knowledge about eco-friendly practices, and sharing its latest community-building projects.

For more on the new platform, please visit https://raindrops.smartcommunity.biz/g/blogs/b43na/dG687/dNkNm

Dedicated to fighting deforestation and addressing climate change in its local community, Rain Drops Community Foundation embraces all opportunities for community engagement. With its online platform, the nonprofit seeks to raise more awareness for its causes, garner more support for its projects, and learn more effective ways to carry out grassroots operations.

Rain Drops Community Foundation was formalized in 2019 with Namwaka Waluka and Godfrey Mulenga Mushinta and other community members, ensuring long term goals are equitable to all. Since its establishment, the nonprofit has been engaged in reforestation projects, planting acacia, mongogo, and fruit trees, and distributing seeds, saplings and sustainability education among the local Silundu community.

In addition to planting trees, the nonprofit has taken up several community-building initiatives, providing food, water, shelter, and other necessities to people in their village, sharing knowledge of the local production of charcoal briquettes (manufactured from organic waste and byproducts like rice husks) as an alternative to the traditional wood charcoal production that causes deforestation in their community, along with a range of other initiatives.

In 2024, the nonprofit aims to raise funds to finance for the supply of electricity to its village for the first time, which has to be booked in advance due to seasonal restrictions. fundraising for a pump and filter for safe drinking water, deliver supplies to a small roadside shop front, fund a refrigerator, and organize a communal charging hub for the village. Those interested in supporting the nonprofit's current projects can learn more at https://want.2bheard.info/lp/156918/lp156918

The Rain Drops Community Foundation is a grassroots nonprofit organization currently fighting against deforestation in their local community. Seeking holistic and localized solutions to climate change, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity, and more, the nonprofit fights for a green economy as well as the self-determination of its people.

“We all live on this precious planet together, and it is our collective responsibility to protect and safeguard it for future generations. We cannot afford to wait for our forests to be decimated and our waterways to become polluted,” said a spokesperson for Rain Drops Community Foundation.

From a small movement, they have grown at their own pace and ae making significant input and contributions to village life and sustainability. Numerous growing projects on the horizon include a range of education, inclusion and wider community engagement. Rain Drops focuses on includes 8 districts stretching from Mongu in the north and reaching as far south as Sesheke, a distance stretching 300km, with the approval of the village chief.

Interested parties can find more information at https://raindrops.smartcommunity.biz/g/blogs/b43na/dG687/dNkNm

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