Climate Action Kenya Project #23930

Increasing forest cover through play in Nairobi

by Green-Kenya

Increasing forest cover through play in Nairobi

Project Report | Nov 3, 2016
Community Impact Program

By David Mulo | President

Hello Team Green-Kenya,

It is that day of the month that we come directly to you with feedback and testimonials from participants and Green-Kenya family that we reach here in Nairobi, precisely Shauri moyo, Majengo, Kinyago slums and its environ, but more so from Green-Kenya.

Our First ever Ground Office!!

We are very much delighted to tell you that for the first time since we rolled out our life changing programs in the community, Green-Kenya has an office, thanks to your support through Global Giving, we can now meet as community Impact Coaches and put our minds together and share our finding from the ground. The office is now centrally located where our participants, parents and community at large can come and get information about our programs and opportunity to volunteer towards a worthy cause.

Our life Changing Community Impact Program (CIP) is stretching further to 10 Primary School thanks to your Support!

It came to us as a surprise that SOS village (bururu) Nairobi, the first village to be established in Kenya and it is a home to 158 Children is more than willing to host our next Kick and conserve tournament. Kick and Conserve is tailored to teach young people how to conserve the environment using the power of sport. Our target for the upcoming kick and Conserve tournament is 15 school that will result to 450 participants both boys and girls sharing equal number.

Truly, this is a life changing opportunity for a young person to plant a tree in their primary life and take part in contributing to 10% forest cover in our Country however small it might look. I would like to quote what Camerom of SOS Primary told me when she recognized my face when I visited SOS Primary because she was present during the previous Kick and Conserve that was held in Thomas Burke, I wanted to know if she can remember what she learned and she told me that and I quote “What I learned is that we can conserve our environment by planting two trees if you cut one to stop soil erosion, I would like to tell my friends and everybody that we should not cut trees without a good plan to plant others”.

These words really touched my heart; it also propelled my energy to work even harder to reach many young people in the communities who would have not gotten this kind of information in their primary school life.

I would also like to inform you that, through your donations, Green-Kenya is still among the emerging ongoing campaign on the Global Giving website, for this. We are still requesting you to help us cement our life changing Community Impact Program (CIP)on the Global Giving website by helping us reach our target of 5000 dollars from 40 unique donors, we have already raised 1,275, we are still looking forward to raise of 3,725 dollars to reach the target. Because of that, Community Impact Program will is not be available via Global Giving search or browser. It is only available via a direct link at https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/community-impact-program. We would like to apologize to our supporters who have tried to search or browse for community Impact Program without success. This should not be a challenging moment for you.

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Aug 8, 2016
Community Impact Program (Kick and Conserve)

By David Mulo | President

Hello,

This is the first time i am submitting a report about Community Impact Program (Kick and Conserve) to Global Giving. Green-Kenya was recommed to join Globalgiving this year 2016 by our friend Elin Hansen who has been following our activities closely. Truely Global giving has made us think globally and today we are giving our report for the first time.

You made it possible!!

I am very excited to let you know how your donation made a difference to 300 participants in Nairobi Eastlands and its environs. These number of participants represents both boys and girls from the age of 9 years to 15 years in both formal and non formal primary schools. We work closely with the head teachers of the primary schools and through a commbined effort we were able to make the second edition of Kick and Conserve a success.

The donation that we received for the first time helped us to purchase booklets, stationaries for teaching environmental conservation, marker cones, soccer balls for environmental games and white chalk during the soccer games.

The donations that we receive from Global Giving goes directly to our programs,

Green-Kenya has two main activities, One is Community Impact program that run weekly in 10 primary schools, in this program participant like Austin from Thomus Burke Primary school learn about how to conserve the environment through soccer themed games and messages in a fun and interactive place (soccer field), and annual events like Kick and Conserve where all the school which are in the environmental program converge in one place to come and compete in the Kick and conserve tournament which has got 3 parts environmental Discussion, Environmental Games and Fair Play, no school/ team can emerge the overall winner by just winning all their fair play games.

In addition to your support through Global giving we have been able to raise 1,200 dollars and our target is to raise 5000 dollars, we have been active on the Global Giving website for only 3 months and your support has made us to focus on reaching many participants in various schools and improving our programs even better.

I cannot forget to mention that Green-kenya has been able to be among the organizations that has been participating in the Emerging Organization Bonus week for 3 times now and this has helped us to raise more fund because now we are able to tell our friends that if you donate 10 dollars and above during the bonus week, Global Giving will march it with 20%. As an emergining organization we do not take your efforts through Global Giving for granted, we really appreciates your kindness.

As you read our success story, we celebrate you too, Participants like Austin, Shanice Mweni and 298 others are ambassadors of Green-Kenya and on behalf of the whole team and participants i want to say... A big thank you!!.

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