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Where Canopy goes next.

Canopy’s first planting is along the Ravi, a tributary of the Indus, near Lahore. Next comes GreenDeen, our own faith-education programme, and then the organisations we intend to work with as the model proves itself: reforestation, clean energy, and flood resilience across Pakistan. None of them is taking Canopy gifts yet.

GreenDeen, our own programme

The deen was always green.

GreenDeen returns climate stewardship to where it has always lived: in scholarship, in the mosque, and in the family.

The entrance of Cambridge Central Mosque, timber arches rising behind its garden
Cambridge Central Mosque, photograph by cmglee, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Imam training

£200 per person

A two-day programme at Cambridge Muslim College and Cambridge Islamic College, grounding climate stewardship in classical Islamic scholarship.

Instructors include Abdul Hakeem Murad, Dr Davide Pettinato, Farhana Mayer.

Scholarship, mosque, and family: three doors into caring for the same created world.

Nature retreats

£300 per person

Weekend retreats with Muslim Family Adventures, reconnecting families with the natural world their faith asks them to steward.

Mosque certification

A faith-grounded sustainability programme co-developed with Cambridge Central Mosque: toolkits, measurable criteria, and Islamic framing.

AR/VR Quranic ecology

Immersive Quranic ecology modules from the founders' Cambridge Masters research, closing the psychological distance between donors in the UK and climate change in Pakistan. Deploying in Bradford, Birmingham, and London Islamic schools.

Then, across Pakistan

The organisations we intend to work with.

  1. Hands planting a young tree during restoration work
    Reforestation

    WWF-Pakistan

    Established in 1970, WWF-Pakistan has grown into the country's largest environmental organisation, working to restore forests, protect freshwater and wildlife, and build a future where people live in harmony with nature.

    • Pakistan's largest environmental organisation, active since 1970
    • Around 340 staff working from 31 offices across the country
    • Programmes span forests, freshwater, wildlife, and climate

    Source: wwfpak.org · a future partner, not yet funded through Canopy

  2. Solar panels in a rural landscape
    Clean energy

    SolarAid Pakistan

    SolarAid is an international charity founded in 2006 to combat poverty and climate change with safe, clean solar power, replacing toxic, polluting kerosene lamps with solar light. Canopy's programme brings this model to rural Pakistan.

    • Founded in 2006 to fight poverty and climate change with solar
    • Solar light replaces kerosene lamps and their toxic fumes
    • SolarAid's work has reached more than 11 million people

    Source: solar-aid.org · a future partner, not yet funded through Canopy

  3. The Indus river flowing through its basin
    Flood resilience

    Recharge Pakistan

    Recharge Pakistan brings nature-based solutions to the Indus Basin, restoring wetlands, floodplains and forests so the river itself absorbs floods and recharges groundwater. One of the largest climate-adaptation investments in Pakistan's history.

    • US$77.8m programme backed by the Green Climate Fund, USAID and partners
    • Seven years of ecosystem-based flood and drought protection
    • Expected to directly benefit 680,000+ people, 7 million indirectly

    Source: worldwildlife.org · greenclimate.fund · a future partner, not yet funded through Canopy

The first trees come first.

Support the Indus planting pilot and follow every tree it funds.

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Register interest

Bring GreenDeen to your mosque.

Register interest for imam training, certification, or a retreat, and the team will be in touch. Schools can ask about the AR/VR Quranic ecology modules here too.