We are based at Biharwe, on the eastern edge of Mbarara City, about a kilometre from a stretch of the Rwizi we have been replanting since 2022.
What we do
River Rwizi Charity Conservation works along the Rwizi and its wetlands: replanting bank vegetation, supporting tree nurseries run by local groups, running school and community programmes, and helping households that currently depend on the wetland find something else that pays.
We are not a research institute and we do not pretend to be. What we do is slower and less quotable. We negotiate with the person farming the bank. We raise seedlings that suit the site rather than the photograph. We come back at six months and twelve months to count what survived, and we publish that number even when it is disappointing.
The catchment problem is bigger than any one organisation. Sand mining, industrial effluent and upstream deforestation are matters for national regulators, and we say so rather than implying we have solved them. Our work sits alongside that, at the scale where a village, a school or a single hillside can be changed.
- Districts
- 3Measured: Mbarara, Rwampara and Isingiro, of the catchment's ten.
- Monitoring points
- 6Measured: Sampled quarterly since 2023.
- Seedling survival
- 61%Measured: At twelve months. We publish it because it is the number that matters.
- Measured: Measuredcounted by us, in the field
- Cited: Citedpublished elsewhere, cited here
- Indicative: Indicativean approximation, not a measurement
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Mission and vision
What we are trying to achieve, stated without the usual inflation.
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How this started, including the parts that went badly.
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What we did and what it cost.
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Where the money comes from and where it goes.
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The most useful page here is the one about failures
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