Cape Town is one of the most biodiverse cities in the world, and also among the highest for social inequality. Ongoing urban expansion not only threatens this biodiversity through habitat destruction and fragmentation, but has led to many urban communities having little or no access to quality natural spaces that are safe.

Although education is a constitutional right in South Africa the education system struggles to overcome the challenges of historical inequality and overburdened resources. This means that even when children do attend school, they sometimes don’t sit at a desk, or use a flushing-toilet, or write in a book.