Regreening - Rainwater Harvesting – Water Bunds (Earth Smiles)

By funding this project you are contributing to their work. You will receive impact reports and measurements but you won't receive a carbon credit.

Nature-based solutions are now recognised as a key element of tackling climate change. Justdiggit, restores desertified, dry land using proven techniques including rainwater harvesting (digging bunds, or ‘earth smiles’). All projects are owned and implemented by communities that live off the land.

Bringing back nature is vital alongside decarbonising the global economy, if we are to maintain a liveable planet. Africa has a young and growing population as well as fertile soil and ideal growing conditions. Sadly, as temperature rise, more and more land is becoming desertified and unusable without intervention.

By breaking open the hard top layer of soil and allowing rainwater to pool and soak into the ground, this one-time intervention ensures a lifetime of impact—less flooding occurs in heavy downpours, and less topsoil is washed away. It also enables perennial grass and plant species to return and thrive. The project brings local employment, including to Masai women, and inspires whole communities to regreen their land. Much of the work is close to national parks and helps provide wildlife corridors for endangered species by connecting wild and semi-wild areas.

Justdiggit takes impact measurement very seriously and outline their methodology and metrics in their impact report. So far over 450,000 water bunds have been dug, transforming the landscapes, capturing millions of cubic metres of water and allowing it soak into the soil. And over 430,000 hectares of dry land is already under restoration, with grasses and other flora and fauna returning in abundance.

29 Oct 2022

Kenya, Africa, Tanzania, Africa