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ZAMGMC stands For "Zambia Green Maintenance Campaign" which is running a campaign focusing on providing "a solution to our carbon emission and to restore the Zambia's landscape to formal glory.” It’s always great to see any business throwing a lot of their energy into giving something back to the world and the community and this is no exception.

Short History
The Zambia Green Maintenance Campaign (ZAMGMC) is a statutory body created under an Act of Parliament:-the Environmental Protection and Pollution Control Act of 1990, Cap 204 of the Laws of Zambia.

The Campaign was founded by Isaac Kanguya with his brother Louis Figo Kanguya and the web site developer that is Trevor Drexmt on the 26 December 2010 when they wanted to help reduce the carbon emission in Zambia they first named it as GMC which is Green Maintenance Campaign they thought it was too general so they wanted to go local and Isaac thought of ZAMGMC because to him it meant that they will keep it as local as possible in order to help the Zambian people. If it was successful in Zambia then go international.

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The aim of launching the Zambia Green Maintance Campaign is to improve the health and living environment for every one. The programme is aimed at helping and facilitating the making of all homes, communities, villages, towns and cities clean.

To regulate and coordinate environmental management, promote awareness, and ensure environmental protection through enforcement of regulations and the prevention and control of pollution in support of sustainable development-so as to provide for the health and welfare of persons, animals, plants and the environment of Zambia by having people to plant a tree. The Zambia Tourism Board (ZTB) officially launched a campaign on 9 December 2014 dubbed Green season domestic tourism that is aimed at encouraging Zambians to go on holidays

How The Campaign Works
Each year during the rain season our Zambian brings people together from around Zambia to plant thousands of trees, learn, connect, give back, grow and get active.

Since Zambia has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world – in 2012 we started an ongoing tree planting and eco-education partnership with environmental activist around the coutry.

The challenges
Zambia has seen rampant deforestation in recent decades, mainly as a result of bad land management, slash and burn farming methods, unsustainable logging and tree cutting for charcoal. According to the UN-REDD programme, Zambia has approximately 50 million hectares of forest, with an estimated deforestation rate of 250,000 to 300,000 hectares per year.

Mission
To regulate and coordinate environmental management, promote awareness, and ensure environmental protection through enforcement of regulations and the prevention and control of pollution in support of sustainable development-so as to provide for the health and welfare of persons, animals, plants and the environment of Zambia by having people to plant a tree.

Aims
1. Create awareness around the deforestation issue and highlight grassroots solutions that can start being implemented.

2. Develop a culture of planting trees within communities through conservation education, and by teaching people how to plant and look after trees.

3. Highlight the global value of conserving the world’s natural forests.

4. Promote and provide alternative energy sources, so that people can move away from the dependence on charcoal

5. Start reforestation in protected forest sites to replace the pioneer trees, allowing for new growth and regeneration of soil content

6. Educate children on their natural environment, and help feed them by planting fruit trees at under-privileged schools

7. Promote conservation farming methods to replace slash and burn techniques that will stop erosion and soil degradation, and create more cost-efficient farms.

8. Start a micro tree nursery enterprise at a selected number of subsistence farms, so that we can provide farmers with an additional income by buying trees from them.

9. Create an exciting and stimulating programme of practical work, lectures and workshops for local and international volunteers, through which everyone can share and learn and get actively involved in our environment.