Themes
Projects made with and for children and young people, who will inherit the forest.
Completed
A two-storey, multi-functional office building in Kwamalasamutu for community organisations, workshops and training, with a computer room that lets young people study on without leaving the village.
Active
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.
2 ambassadors
Completed
Forest93 hosted Jean-Pierre Veira's first exhibition of his wildlife photography during Earth Hour, and invited school students to meet him there.
1 ambassador
Completed
After Amatopo, a second primary school was built in the neighbouring Tarëno village of Coeroeni, bringing roughly 30 children into formal education without leaving their families.
1 ambassador
Completed
Dean Gorré handed full football kits to teams in indigenous villages across south Suriname, donated by the Dutch club S.C. Heerenveen.
1 ambassador
Completed
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.
1 ambassador
Completed
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.
Completed
At the request of its village captains, Forest93 built a primary school in Amatopo, a Tarëno village in the far south-west of Suriname that had never had one.
1 ambassador
Completed
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 2024.
1 ambassador
Completed
Sponsored day trips for 250 young people aged 10 to 16 to the Sranan Krakti exhibition at Villa Zapakara, with a Forest93 team quiz about Suriname's nature.
