Climate Action Kenya Project #23930

Increasing forest cover through play in Nairobi

by Green-Kenya

Increasing forest cover through play in Nairobi

Project Report | Dec 14, 2018
A Year in Review 2018

By David Mulo | Project Leader

The year is finally coming to an end and I would like to retrospect how the year begun, what were some of the key milestones, challenges faced and of cause how we overcame them. Your support has kept us floating and it has trickled down to our participants, the very young person that you have been thinking of. I would like to take this moment to send out our positive vibes from our participants who we engaged with in the just concluded session in the community a week ago.

100 Children Joined Community Impact program this year!!!

As the schools were heading to a close for the long holidays, Green-Kenya community coaches were invited to share how sports can be used to address different social issues to the parents and invited guests. We received a letter from the director of Splash Community School, Mr. Josphat, i was emotional as I was reading it, I would like to share with you as a person who has made this happen.

"APPRECIATION

The school Director, teachers, subordinate staff, parents and the pupils of Splash Community Primary School wish to express their heartfelt thanks to the Green-Kenya fraternity for their presented support and dedication aimed at helping young learners achieve their dreams.

Your sports activities and counseling sessions played a vital role in not only shaping the character of learners but also educating our games teachers on skills needed in handling students under diverse environment. This has been well articulated in 2018 through your spirit of teamwork, dedication and focus.

As a School, we promise to cooperate with you in your future plans of positive contribution to the society through Sports.

May God bless Green-Kenya"

We are passionate about community development through sports, I believe that we are a community, a community working towards a common goal and we are making a contribution with the little we have to make a change in the lives of Children from Mukuru and Shauri Moyo.

In the beginning of this year, we committed ourselves to 100 Children to Join Community impact program and I can now confirm that we surpassed the target. Many of these participants came from Mukuru Slums where community impact program has gained roots. In total we have been able to reach 1462 Children in Mukuru, Shauri Moyo and Buruburu. We have also been able to conduct 90 sessions out of 112 sessions. This was as a result of unfavorable weather conditions that affected many parts of Nairobi, as a result, the fields were submerged with water for a while which forced us to either reschedule or find a way to do double session bearing in mind that 3^rd term is the shortest in the school Calendar.

Thank you very much for your support, you believing in us, Giving does not mean that you have too much but rather knowing how much it feels to lack when you are in need. Happy holidays and a prosperous New Year 2019.

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Sep 18, 2018
The first Kick and Conserve out of school

By David Mulo | Executive Director

Happy 4^th anniversary to Green-Kenya!!!

It is now official that Green-Kenya is celebrating its 4^th anniversary this Month of September. It was a wonderful moment to bring together participants from different schools that we work with and Green-Kenya family to have a moment to look back at how the journey started, where we are, and where the dream is headed with a new generation of young people who have been impacted through Community Impact Program.

The first Kick and Conserve out of school

In the quest to reach out to many young people who normally have nothing to do during the holidays, we decided to stretch ourselves in to the community for the first time to teach young people how to conserve the environment through what they love most, football.

Due to many teams that turned up to participate in the tournament, we had to extend the days of playing from the normal one day to 5 days, 42 teams, both boys and girls age 14 years and below showed their interest to participate in the tournament, this represented a total of 700 Children. The number was a surprise to us. This number almost doubled Kick and Conserve in school, thanks to your supportr!!.

During the final day of kick and conserve, we received positive comment like this from one of the coaches “Sincerely speaking it was a great tournament that we will live to remember thanks again for fairness and hard work may God bless the work of our hands let's stay together like brothers coz we all have one mission and vision and that is to take care of mother nature through sports.”

Kick and Conserve out of school has been a learning curve for all the community coaches, and just like Kick and conserve in school started to become one of the major football tournament to learn about becoming environmental stewards, I believe that Kick and Conserve out of school will gain grounds for children to explore their talent, a place where we will not test their minds with facts and figure but learn how to value human dignity, how to work as a team and find ways to improve on how we treat our environment knowing that if there will be any change that will take place on earth, it will have to start with us, whether young, mature or old.

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Jun 25, 2018
Transforming one life at a time

By David Mulo | Executive Director

Another moment is here with us to share some of the memorable moments that we have had with our participants. We have reached a record of 243 Children who are taking part in our Community impact program on a weekly basis, thanks to your support. I have witnessed a significant change of behavior of the Children who were once quiet, reserved and engulfed with low self-esteem becoming confident, resilient and full of energy.

One of the ways that we monitoring and evaluation, especially how the participants attend community impact sessions is through attendance register, the register has all the names of all participants and it is mark after every session by the coaches.

Normally, the Community Coaches are the one who are in charge of marking the attendance register and the do a follow up of those who are not in the session with either the parents or the school administration, but gradually. The notion has changed now, the youth leaders are now in charge of taking the register at the end of the session, It has become so easy to identify who is missing for the youth leaders even before looking at the register. Towards the end of the school calendar, these you leaders will be given an opportunity to conduct part of the sessions that they have learned since the beginning of the year. They will be paired in groups of three young leaders and demonstrate the activity to the rest of the group.

I believe that by giving this young people simple tasks and responsibilities helps them to develop their character and resilience to become role models, these simple steps will help them identify their potential while they are still young.

I believe that we are creating an educational system that is not only testing their mind and capabilities with fact and figures but teach them to be creative, what it takes to be human, to value human life. Through Our methodology, we hope to give our participants a direction, to bounce back from adversity and become asset and not liabilities in the community.

Asanteni Sana….Thank you very much for your support.

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