Saturday at the Sustainable Living Festival!

Hey All...

Wow, what an unbelievable couple of days! We’ve had such fantastic support at the Sustainable Living Festival over the weekend. Nick gave a speech earlier in the day with Axon Khoza (partner of Wilderness Vision and grandson of Chief Kapama of the Shangaan Tribe), and a lot of interest was generated. ONE of the highlights was having Sam Nzima and his wife, take the pledge, sign the scroll and pay their one Rands!

For those of you who don’t know Sam Nzima –he is the South African photographer who took the image of Hector Pieterson during the Sowetan Riots. What a privilege it is for us to have his signature on our scroll.

Another highlight was getting to spend some time with FreshlyGround and having them dedicate a song to us. And on this note, we would also like to extend a thank you to the Band and Heidi, Naz, and Yiorgos for their support in the 1 + 1 =1 Pledge Drive.
Just before their main performance, Jonathan went up in front of the massive audience, gave them our message and asked for their support and left to the roar of a clapping crowd.

All in all – an outstanding start to a much anticipated project!

So now it’s off to JHB! Wish us luck, and catch you all later.

Jonathan & Nick

1 + 1 = 1 enjoys a great day at the Sustainable Living Festival

07h15am this morning found the Wilderness Vision team setting up the stall at the Sustainable Living festival in Hoedspruit, Limpopo.

What an awesome day it was. Everyone was so keen to get involved, take the pledge and sign the scroll. Several folks gave way more than the R1-00. Alex Williams, an 8 year old student at Southern Cross donated R100-00! Thank you AL.

Jessica Mayes worked so hard all day, giving a great presentation to all who passed by, Thank you Jess, you are a star. To all the others who jumped in and spread the word, to Jake, Meg, Moo and all, a great BIG hearty Thank you - you rock!

Khanyisa School from Giyani were thrilled to participate. They are seen here signing the scroll.

There was a superb turn out today and the presentation by Alan and Sarah McSmith went down well. Tomorrow Jonathan and Nick take a turn on the mic with back up from Axon who will give a demonstration of the pledge in 9 languages! Among the stalls were Aurora Development, worms Galore and Magpie handcrafted fineware.

!!!Come and join us all at the festival!!!

To stand a chance to win an apple iphone SMS WVO plus YOUR NAME plus the NAME OF YOUR TOWN to 34008.

Southern Cross Schools is the first to sign!

Southern Cross School in Hoedspruit becomes the first school to sign the scroll.....

This they did with great enthusiasm on Friday 17th April.

The 1 + 1 = 1 team were invited to Southern Cross School to introduce the project to the learners and teachers.


Concepts like; sustainable living, planting trees and saving energy are not new to these kids! This is all a normal part of the day at this "School for the Planet"! In fact many of these students are so in tune with nature they could teach all of us a thing or two!


We were also priviledged to watch the Grade fours do a presentation of their goals, what an inspiration this was, thank you guys and gals. It was so interesting to see how many future wildlife vets are in the making at Southern Cross. Must have something to do with local vet, Dr. Pete Rogers and team who are great mentors to the kids.

Thank you Southern Cross your support is invaluable!

6500 kms, 8 weeks, 9 provinces!

Six days to go before the official start of the

1 + 1 = 1 Pledge Drive SA.

One man One rand One future. For just one rand you can pledge your support towards the planting of 7 billion trees by December 2009!!!

Jonathan and Nick are all set to cover 6500 kms,

over 8 weeks, through 9 provinces!

"Thats a long way" you may say and indeed you would be right ! but these guys have a message to share and they intend to do it in a big way.

They are literally going the extra mile for this great cause.

The cause - TREES - they plan to share the value of trees in our lives in presentations at schools across the country. They will also be aiming to get 1000000 people to take the pledge, sign the scroll and pay a rand, by doing so you will be directly contributing to a global initaitive to counter climate change. The United Nations Environment Programme has endorsed the project and 50% of raised profits will go towards planting of trees under the Billion Tree Campaign!

Look out for Jonathan and Nick at malls, events and parties across the country for the next two months and join the vision...SIGN UP, PAY YOUR RAND AND MAKE VOTE FOR THE FUTURE!