Scaling up with SUNCASA and Beyond

WFTF's Restoration Story, 2017–2026

Water For The Future was founded in 2017 with a single, stubborn idea: that the Jukskei River could be rehabilitated by the people who live alongside it, using nature itself as the toolkit. Nearly a decade on, that idea has grown into a five-kilometre inner-city corridor of restored grassland, monitored water quality, and paid community employment. This is the story of what that restoration has built — including the recent chapter funded through the SUNCASA partnership (Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa), which concluded its funding period in 2026.