The results from Convoy of Hope's Regrow Response are up there with the best bushfire recovery programs in NSW.
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To date over 19,000 native plants, trees, shrubs and ground-covers have been distributed to residents of the South Coast and Southern Highland.
Its Regrow Conjola initiative has been one of the successful parts of the regrow project.
Convoy of Hope commenced Regrow Response across the Shoalhaven, Eurobodalla, Bega Valley and Wingecarribee regions of the South Coast and Southern Highlands.
Convoy of Hope is a faith-based, nonprofit organisation that helps empower others to live with greater independence and freedom from poverty, disease, and hunger.
The group's bushfire recovery program started shortly after the Black Summer crisis.
Regrow Response is an initiative that brings school children, volunteer groups, businesses, local government and supportive donors together, to facilitate the nurturing, planting and regeneration of bushfire-affected residential areas.
The program has engaged school children from over 40 South Coast, Southern Highlands and Sydney schools to grow plants for the purpose of providing them to residents at no cost to regenerate their bushfire-affected properties and restore much-needed habitat and ecosystems.
The program has shown to have a very positive impact on the students' love of plants and a sense of fulfilment by contributing to the bushfire recovery.
Bushfire-affected residents have also been overwhelmed at the thoughtfulness and kindness shown by students and schools 18 months on from the fires.
The third and final plant distribution event in Conjola will be held at the end of November.