Environment

• GEP is a champion in ensuring that the environmental resources are protected and sustainably utilized to ensure rural people have basic needs such as water.The Environment is widely defined as the living things and what is around them. The majority of the rural communities directly depend on forests for their basic needs such as:Firewood for cooking
• Water
• Medicines
• Grazing grounds
• Raw materials for craft making
• Food
• Building materials.

Rural people tend to live in the present; with accelerating climatic change, the rural people did not previously respond nor changed their daily activities. Reducing deforestation have help to protect the communities from climate change by preserving water resources, suppressing pests such as caterpillars, reduces soil erosion and providing wind breaks to protect crops.

However, GEP has been working with rural communities surrounding Mafuga Central Forest reserve for the past 10 years and has continuously enlightened the rural people on the benefits of sustainably utilizing the available forest resources and benefits attained from conserving the natural forest resources. GEP has been a champion in educating the rural communities about the adverse affects that result from misusing the environment and illustrating how one's negative impact on the environment affects the entire community and world at large.Using examples of the lowered water tables within the community which are the only water source, GEP has been able to inspire the locals to love the environment and the rural people are currently managing and sustainable utilizing the natural resources within their reach.