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Nature Connect started modestly in 2001 with a group of school children from the Cape Flats, standing in front of a mountain they had no reason to visit, ten minutes from home. It was the potential for joy that stuck. Environmental education isn't dramatic. It is a kid asking what a bird was called after being quiet all day or a learner refusing to leave the ocean at the end of a beach clean-up. Those moments led to this organisation: seeing what happens when a child gets real, uninterrupted time in nature, and realising how many never got that chance.

We could have treated it as just a nice day out. Instead, we chose to build something that lasted, because a child's relationship with nature doesn't bloom in one trip. Twenty-five years later, that choice has grown into a creche to career framework, with teachers who want environmental education in the classrooms, but lack the training and the tools. With unemployed youth, leaving school, no clear career path and no idea of a green economy. With conserved land around Ca...Read More

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