Ecolink aims to empower individuals, households and communities so that they are able to respond to outside stressors - climate change or other. All our training programmes consider dignity, self-esteem and autonomy as important as material goods and all our environmental training and development programmes have one aim – to build stronger communities who have more opportunities and greater choices so that they do not feel caught up in cycles of hopelessness and despair. Mpumalanga is the 'place where the sun rises' and we work with people so that they shine.