From 2020, the project focuses on planting various agroforestry and fruit trees, as well as waste management, to reduce river and lake pollution, help protect water quality by preventing the spread of contaminants while promoting urban greening. Here are some of the achievements:
- Training of 20 local leaders on the self-construction of Ecosan-type ecological latrines to prevent groundwater pollution in the Ntamba and Mutimbuzi areas in the Musigati and Isale communes (Bujumbura and Bubanza provinces).
- 15,000 Caliandra plants, 250 grafted avocado plants, and 12,000 Tripsacum stump fragments planted in this micro-basin in Cirisha, Isale commune, Bujumbura Rural.
- A nursery of 10,000 native tree seedlings was established, and 300 native tree cuttings were planted upstream of the Mount Bona catchment area in Bujumbura Rural.
- More than 20,000 fruit tree cuttings were planted in nurseries and distributed to approximately 5,000 households to protect agricultural areas from erosion in Murwi commune, Buhayira Zone, Remera Nyarurinzi hill, and Nkuna in 2019, also raising awareness through its community volunteers.
- Established sixteen (16) environmental protection and water contamination prevention clubs (with 160 students, 30% of whom are girls) in sixteen primary schools (three in Murwi and three in Buganda communes in Cibitoke province and ten others in commune Ntahangwa, Bujumbura Marie). These clubs are run by our volunteers, who are school leaders.
- Riverbed protection of Nyabagere River by bamboo planting in Ntahangwa commune and cleaning and maintenance of the RN9 gutter towards the Gikoma River.
- Held at least two community meetings with local hill administrations and populations per month on environmental protection, waste management, and water point sanitation in all municipalities of programme intervention.
With generous support from the private and institutional donors, EdSF Burundi expects, from this year 2025, to reinforce and extend the project operations focusing on afforestation and reforestation through planting various tree seedlings and collecting and sorting waste materials, and liaising with industries converting those materials into raw material for new, reused, or restored products to help in safely treating waste and protecting water quality and the safety of food.
