Ngeya Environment Club

Although we have been busy for the last few months, the environment club at Ngeya Primary school has been active and doing great. We have over eighty(80) children who are so active and have been willing to learn more about environment and what they can do to help. We did an educational tour in July and sensitized the kids about the great problem we have been having of environment destruction. The students were able to come to terms with the things they have not been taking into consideration and mostly participating in trashing the town.

They also visited our centre and they were able to meet with malaika kids whom they loved so much. It was a real eye opener for all of them and this was evident after witnessing the things they wrote down after being asked to write a composition about the environmental tour. It was impressive to see their thoughts and there is no doubt our program is empowering them and if we do not give up, we will have some reliable youth in future.
We hope to continue with the motivation and hope to bring their parents too to visit the garden and also see how the trees are doing well with just a few minutes of our time everyday to water them with just a little water.

For the last 2 weeks the schools have been closed but the environment club members have been visiting the school to water the trees and the garden we planted,class four (4) students had invited other kids in the community to go and assist them to water the trees and I was amazed by the efforts they are showing while the school is closed.

The garden is doing great and the composting have really gone down. Very soon it will be ready for use. The only problem we have is that cabbages were affected by pests, it also looks like some seeds are different and not doing good as others. Today tony was harvesting sukumawiki for the 4th time and sell them to the owners of greengrocery shops around maai-mahiu. My goal is to keep educating these students about the things we can do to improve the living situation in our village. Good gardening, tree planting, trash collection and water harvesting are things we can learn and do together. We hope to move this project to run and sustain itself and hopefully start a greenhouse, But we need resources to give us a good start.

I have been doing research on this and you can visit http://www.amiran/ kenya to see what has been going on. Amiran deals with farm inputs, seeds and chemicals. They are partnering with equity bank to help support the people. I am also thinking we need to have a tree nursery of our own to be run by the environmental club so that we can increase tree planting and make the trees easily available, it will also be another learning experience for the students.

Till next month, I hope you have a great time.

Rocky Muuri

Environment Coordinator/ General manager

Comfort the Children International - Kenya