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Estate News

ARBOR DAY AT FOURWAYS GARDENS

ourways Gardens is fortunate to Our EcoKids event for Arbor Day 2024 was to the common areas enjoyed by all! Life
have many established Indigenous another very successful day, and we are Green Group also showed up in force, and
trees, and with our streets named particularly thankful to Dr Joseph Ndou their General Manager for Maintenance,
Fafter Indigenous trees, it only makes (Region Manager for Johannesburg City Abigail de Swardt gave an informative talk
sense that Arbor Day is a big deal for us! Parks) for his ongoing commitment to about the varieties planted on this sunny
Recognising our responsibility is not only to protecting and caring for our city’s trees. As Saturday.
maintain the indigenous flora, but we also our keynote speaker, Dr Ndou spoke to the
place a high premium on raising the next children about the importance of trees and Tree planting with Dr Ndou is always a
generation to be informed and passionate secured a generous sponsorship of trees highlight for the children in attendance,
about the Urban Forest, which is essential to bolster the urban landscape. We can’t and this year was no different, with Dr Ndou
for life and well-being! wait to see the difference that these make explaining the importance of compost

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