Collaboration Leads
Fahad Rizwan (Green Squad) and Muhammad Hassan Dajana (Teach for Pakistan)
QCT Thematic Area
Environment
Inclusion
Operational Countries
Pakistan
SDG(s) Coverage
GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
GOAL 13: Climate Action
GOAL 15: Life on Land
GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
Status
Growth & Expansion
Project Description
Heat waves are taking a toll for our common citizens, urban biodiversity is vanishing and Air Quality Index is deteriorating in our cities. We have raised a fund of 12 thousand USD and now we are planting shaded trees along roads, fruit orchards in parks and urban forests on degenerated landfills to recover the greenspace, habitat for wildlife in Rawalpindi Islamabad.
Outcomes
One of the major outcome ofthis project is that we have covered around 20 KMs of roads with shaded trees in Rawalpindi. 2 major landfills/dumping grounds which were a site of heap are now converted into lush green urban forests. The fruit and flowering species planted in city’s park are a habitat of endangered wild bees now.
Please reach out to us at connect@qct.org.uk to get involved.
