By Sharon Runge | Executive Director
We have been celebrating Earth Day in Wamunyu! Students at Mutyangoi Primary School are earth champions! They are members of the new Moringa Tree club. This group of students, under the leadership of Mentor Brian, have been planting and watering Moringa Trees. The students are learning about the life cycle of the tree, best practices of growing, and the many benefits of the "Mighty Moringa." They, and parents from the school, will help harvest the leaves which will be ground into powder and sold for income. This is part of our initiative to provide income generation programs, plant more trees as part of the Kenyan 15 billion tree initiative and to teach students about the importance of trees in mitigating climate change. “We are excited to be planting Moringa Trees in our school because it is medicinal and the leaves can be cooked. We will also have more plants in the school compound because we have been growing vegetables through the environmental subject.” Mutyangoi PS club members.
In addition, our April 22 Earth Day Saturday Storytime was a special Earth Champion lesson. Mentor David read the book, “Touch the Earth" by Jane Baskwill.” The students then created trees using toilet paper tubes and tissue papers. Our Makerspace has been featuring activities using materials that can be upcycled like plastic bottles, toilet paper tubes, and bottle caps. At the conclusion of the activities, the students helped clean up the Kenya Connect campus by picking up trash.
Mentor David shared, “There are so many ways people can celebrate Earth Day and through the Saturday Storytime we decided to celebrate through reading.” Students learned different ways that they can touch the Earth like showing kindness, planting a tree and caring for animals and other people. Through reading they will transform their world.”
Donors like you ensure that we can provide these enrichment programs that are not only fun, but help our students learn about being good stewards of the earth. The many programs we provide give students skills and knowledge they can share with their families and use in their lives.
We are so excited to see our Earth Day trees GROW!
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