OUR MISSION


Qaragach Foundation’s goal is to bring the culture of sustainable development to society and contribute to the green economy. We believe that each of us can make contribution to the conservation of nature for present and future generations.

OUR PRIORITIES


Environmental education
Engaging people of all ages to join a sustainable lifestyle and reduce their environmental footprint. Expansion of environmental education among the general public in various formats with the use of modern technologies. Support business and government structures in the implementation of the principles of the green economy in their activities.

Reforestation
Strengthening ecosystems through reforestation, agrotechnical tree care, implementation of initiatives to reduce desertification and aid in regeneration of natural areas.

Popularization of volunteering
Assistance in the development of voluntary work and other activities in the interests of nature conservation. Support of green communities, environmental initiatives, including the partnership with other organizations, aimed at achieving the goals of the Fund.
Plant the Forest
a service restoring nature
Plant the Forest is a set of initiatives to restore drylands and support in climate adaptation. The reforestation program is implemented in 3 main directions:
  • Forest restoration by planting trees in the lands affected by wildfires, clearances, and natural disasters
  • Making and maintaining campaigns to offset carbon footprint
  • Popularization of volunteering activities

How it works?

Plant the Forest operates as a crowdfunding platform, we’re receiving money from people and businesses for tree planting. After the accumulation of sufficient amount of funds, the next step is selecting the region where planting will take place. We decide which region is in need of reforestation and arrange planting events with local coordinators there. Planting events are coordinated with each region’s official forestry service. Forestry service prepares the soil using trucks and special machines. By that time our team and forestry service decides on tree nurseries, species of trees, and general amount of seedlings. Afterwards, trees are planted by volunteers. We organize transfers and food at every planting site.
Plant Trees

Reports and results
After planting events, we create a photo report. You can find information regarding latest plantings in our social media accounts. If you supported the project by purchasing a tree planting certificate, a full report will be sent to your e-mail in 2−3 months after the event. A typical full report includes photos, videos, GPS coordinates, number of planted trees, and a number of volunteers participating in the event.

Our project makes sure trees flourish so they can protect the environment in the future. Plant the Forest project not only plants seedlings, but also ensures that they will turn into large beautiful trees. Our volunteers participate in agricultural care.
International Volunteer Camp
International Volunteer Camp involves volunteers from various countries in solving environmental problems. We focus on preservation and restoration of drylands, forests, and water bodies. Our mission is to train volunteers in many aspects of environmental protection and accelerate the development of their own environmental initiatives.

Each region has a natural area that needs special attention and a large number of participants to stop degradation of land, improve state of the environment and living conditions of the local population.

Young people worldwide are ready to pay their attention and spend time participating in volunteer environmental projects. This gives countries which wish to focus on solving environmental problems a chance to get a large number of interested people, fight xenophobia, and celebrate local culture.
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Ecoclass
environmental education for everyone
Ecoclass.info — Environmental lessons given in schools by local teachers, parents, and environmental leaders. The EcoClass platform provides a suite of methodological materials such as study guides, video lessons, workbooks, presentations, in-class games, and more. Our materials are created by professional educators and methodologists, biologists, environmental practitioners, designers, and IT specialists.

Our lessons help to develop environmental care skills in a variety of areas: water and energy conservation, waste sorting, innovative technologies for the environment, green jobs of the future, and many others.

The lessons have an interactive game format and are very popular with teachers and students. The experience that we accumulated over 6 years of work in the area of environment is systematized and designed in bright modern materials written in a language accessible to children.

EcoClass lessons are free and available to everyone. Although, we work with partners to create lessons on new topics and are open for cooperation to produce lessons upon your request.
Ecoclass environmental lessons
Environmental lessons on waste

Separate With Us

Interactive lessons Separate With Us introduces students to the topic of separate waste collection and the circular economy.

A series of modern lessons talks about concepts such as separate collection and recycling of waste, introduces students to international experience in the field of waste management, recycling technologies and the principles of zero waste lifestyle.

Lessons were designed with new concepts of gamification which help students to absorb information more efficiently.

Results:
  • more than 15 thousand teachers conducted lessons
  • more than 700 thousand schoolchildren participated lessons
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A series of ecological lessons Forestmania
Forestmania is a series of lessons dedicated to forests and the global problem of deforestation. Lessons available on 4 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, English and Belarusian. The goal of the lesson is to promote careful attitude towards forests among students and teach them basics of responsible choice-making. The series of lessons targets 3 different age groups:
  • Primary school (6 — 10 years)
  • Junior school (11 — 14 years)
  • High School (15 — 18 years)
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Waterkeepers
Project vision and mission: there is no life on Earth without water. The aim of the lessons is to teach kids how we effect global water resources, how we use and pollute water. Lessons were translated on 8 languages: Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Belorusian and Tajik.

At the end of the course kids are informed about ways how to became a Waterkeeperer, how to reduce pollution, help local communities and more.
Become a Waterkeeper
Key performance indicators of the fund:
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number of participants in projects from different target audiences (schoolchildren, students, adults)
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number of programs, projects and activities aimed for the implementation of the our mission
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percentage of positive feedback from target audience and participants
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number and quality of actions aimed at environmental changes that were made by project participants from different target audiences
Contact Us
Public fund for sustainable solutions "Qaragach"
BIN: 221240003613

Email: qaragach@eca-planet.com
Address: Zavetnaya 31
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 050011