GGREF

Granite Grounds Rehabilitation Foundation

Restoring Lands, Reviving Communities, Protecting Wildlife

Granite Extraction Process

Granite mining generates large amounts of residues as raw blocks are extracted in blast processes.

Granite Products

The granite rock is a material commonly used for countertops in bathrooms and kitchens.

Watch the process here.

Granite extraction activities, also known as quarrying activities, can have major environmental effects.

Individuals and wildlife can be affected by shortage of water, dust pollution and land degradation.

Water sources are directly damaged or destroyed by granite extraction activities.

Granite quarries disrupt ecosystems and rural communities' subsistence.

Alternative Water Sources

GGREF promotes renewable water source alternatives for rural subsistence which in return, enables long lasting effects of our environmental reach.

Cisterns are one of many water alternatives.

Food Bags

GGREF distributes food bags to families who can no longer live off the land. You can also help by donating a food bag to a family in distress.

GGREF brings environmental and humanitarian assistance through dozens of volunteers working in a joint effort.

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Spring Hunters

Known as "Caçadores de Nascentes" (or Spring Hunters) local volunteers work together in a joint initiative to restore and protect natural spring waters. Learn more.

Food bags bring immediate relief to those who can no longer survive from their own crops.

GGREF gathers those in need to build a sustainable environmental community.

GGREF builds rainwater reservoirs, allowing natural resources to recover for wildlife refuge.

We involve communities in nature rehabilitation and promote traditional subsistence crops.

GGREF

For an equitable and sustainable human-environmental balance.

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