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Programmes

From school programmes to full partnerships.

Three activity streams carry the strategy: measurement, education and action. Projects and events amplify them.

Activities

Nile Data, Nile Edu, Nile Act.

Nile Data

Monitoring stations, sampling campaigns and the open pollution map. Every reading is published so researchers and governments can use it.

  • Water quality stations
  • Microplastic sampling
  • Open datasets & the live map

Nile Edu

River literacy for schools, universities and communities: what pollution does, where it comes from, and what a household can change this week.

  • School programme
  • Teacher toolkits
  • Community workshops

Nile Act

The physical work: cleanups on defined stretches, collection points, recycling routes and prevention infrastructure with local crews.

  • Stretch cleanups
  • Collection & recycling
  • Local crew training

Projects & events

Work in motion.

Projects

Book publishing

Documenting the basin, the people and the plan in print.

Documentaries

Film work that shows the river as it is, not as a statistic.

Collaborations

Joint programmes with NGOs, universities and companies.

Events

Discussion panels

Bringing policymakers, scientists and communities into one room.

Cleaning activities

Open cleanup days anyone can join along the river.

Partner summits

Working sessions where partners commit to concrete deliverables.

On the ground

Cleanups are run by the people who live there.

Volunteers collecting plastic waste from a Nile riverbank

Every cleanup produces two outputs: waste removed, and data recorded. Volume, waste type and location go straight onto the live map so the same stretch can be tracked over time instead of cleaned once for a photo.

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