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Projects made with and for children and young people, who will inherit the forest.

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  • Potted fruit tree saplings lined up on the plot, with the planting team standing behind them

    Active

    Suriname's first food forest

    A food forest with a social purpose in Wanica, planted in June 2024. Its fruit is meant for Children's Home Riyos and other children's homes nearby.

    • Food security
    • Youth

    2 ambassadors

  • Children of Coeroeni cheering on the steps of their new school on opening day

    Completed

    Primary School for indigenous village, Coeroeni

    After Amatopo, a second primary school was built in the neighbouring Trio village of Coeroeni, bringing roughly 30 children into formal education without leaving their families.

    • Education
    • Youth

    1 ambassador

  • Completed

    Sports kits donation by Dean Gorré

    Dean Gorré handed full football kits to teams in indigenous villages across south Suriname, donated by the Dutch club S.C. Heerenveen.

    • Sports
    • Youth

    1 ambassador

  • A large group of secondary school students in uniform gathered under a school canopy after a session

    Completed

    Plastic Footprint Change Agents, with UNICEF

    Twenty young Change Agents from four districts ran workshops in schools and community groups on cutting single-use plastic, as part of UNICEF's Plastic Footprint Suriname project.

    • Youth
    • Education
    • Awareness
    • Environment

    1 ambassador

  • Cover of the children's book “De Avonturen van Bollie de Otter” by Dave van Aerde

    Completed

    Forest93 supports Bollie de Otter

    In “The Adventures of Bollie the Otter”, Surinamese children aged 4 to 12 learn to love Mama Sranan. Forest93 funded the development of the first two books.

    • Education
    • Youth
  • Children of Amatopo with Forest93 school bags cheering on the steps of their new school, with Dean Gorré sitting among them and green balloons tied to the railing

    Completed

    Primary School for indigenous village, Amatopo

    At the request of its village captains, Forest93 built a primary school in Amatopo, a Trio and Tareno village in the far south-west of Suriname that had never had one.

    • Education
    • Youth

    1 ambassador

  • A harvest of cabbages and aubergines from one of the children's home food gardens

    Completed

    Tiny Food Gardens for children's homes

    Garden tables and garden boxes that let children's homes grow their own vegetables and herbs, from a COVID-era fundraiser in 2021 to 53 food gardens in 6 homes by the end of 2023.

    • Food security
    • Youth
    • Education

    1 ambassador

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