People of faith
caring for living earth
Faith leaders
and green champions in action
SAFCEI Calendar 2019
Featuring photography by local
Cape Town/Garden Route artist
Andrea Nixon
Who we are
SAFCEI (Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute) is a multi-faith organisation committed to supporting faith leaders and their communities in Southern Africa to increase awareness, understanding and action on eco-justice, sustainable living and climate change.
What We Do
Care for the Earth by Faith Communities
Promoting understanding of the connection between faith and living Earth, and inspiring people of faith to effect change and just development within their own communities.
Energy Justice
Working for South Africans to have accessible, affordable and sustainable energy, and for faith leaders and communities from other countries to learn from South Africa’s experience.
Food & Climate Justice
Promoting a rights of nature approach to food sovereignty and climate change, opposing factory farming, industrial agriculture and GMOs.
Faith Leader Environmental Advocacy Training
Facilitating faith leaders environmental advocacy training (FLEAT) in southern Africa, and providing learning resources to conduct local eco-projects, including eco-actions in congregations.
Nuclear energy procurement problems highlighted in submission to Zondo Commission
Major energy procurement projects need independent oversight at all stages – pre-procurement, procurement and post-procurement – to prevent further state capture, recommends the Southern African Faith Communities Environmental Institute (SAFCEI) in its recent...
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Season of Creation 2019: Pray, teach and act for creation
Dear fellow faith leaders and colleagues A most important day is approaching, for the attention and action of all faith leaders and faith communities. It is essential that Christians, and people of all faiths, pray for the well-being of creation and commit themselves...
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Faith Leader Environmental Advocacy – August 2019
FLEAT South Africa: All hands on deck at David Profit Street Bonteheuwel PEACE GARDENS. Dutch Television are coming tomorrow, God Willing, to film our Peace Gardens for a documentary on Fynbos, the birds and insects it attracts to Bonteheuwel and most important, the...
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Faith Leader Environmental Advocacy – July 2019
Have a look at what our Faith Leader Environmental Advocacy Training (FLEAT) members have been up to this month. Allen Ottaro - CYNESA- FLEAT Regional Group 1: The Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) hosted the...
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SAFCEI AGM 2019
We hosted our Annual General Meeting at Community House in Cape Town on Tuesday 16th July. Thank you to all who came and joined us. Special thanks to Sinegugu Zukulu our keynote speaker who came and inspired us about our place in the world and connection to the land,...
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Mantashe shows his hand as SA government backslides on its energy plans
MEDIA RELEASE 12 JULY 2019 MANTASHE SHOWS HIS HAND AS SA GOVERNMENT BACKSLIDES ON ITS ENERGY PLANS In his budget speech on Thursday, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe made it clear that he and his department are out of touch and wilfully unaware...
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