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This is KCDN, an Environmental Management, Economic Empowerment and Poverty Eradication Civil Society.

We welcome you to our site. Kindly feel free to share with us your thoughts. Ideas that add value will be appreciated. Ideas that want to make us improve our physical environment will be welcome. And more so, ideas that redirect us from the lost cause will be of immense value.

It is us who will improve the lot of our Environment, our Economy and make Kenya a Clean Country, where People join hands to work for our own Economic Emancipation and where Municipal Solid Waste Management is looked at as a resource, not as waste.

We need to set the standards in this region of the World and become the referral point in how a people can join hands and work for their own Economic Liberation, where waste can be used as raw material and become a source of employment for our people.

Our collective actions will surely make a difference. This is why in partnership with our Key Strategic Partners- The Public Service Transformation Department, the National Environment Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,other key Ministries, the Local Authorities in Kenya, the Provincial Administration, A Better World, Akiba Uhaki Foundation and other Partners, we are moving deliberately in sensitizing and mobilizing Kenyans to work towards A Clean Kenya where waste is separated at source.

And this is why we are inviting Kenyans to join with us in The Clean Kenya Campaign and be a Member of Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd

Welcome.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader & Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL & TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, kimishodevelopment@gmail.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Lake Victoria


On 23rd March 2009, I visited Kisumu and went by the lake. I was shocked that this is what we have for a Lake.
I was shocked because the other day, President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga were at Kajiado braking ground for something called Kazi Kwa Vijana.
I really appreciate the efforts at making the youth earn some income. But what is the rationale of just braking earth for the sake of it? What are these boys meant to achieve by just digging so that they are paid?
I thought real work can be in mobilizing the youth around Lake Victoria to remove the Hyacinth for a daily pay. That would make a lot of sense to many people. But just didgging trenches for nothing in Kajiado are some arid place, just to keep the boys busy, does not make sense to me.
But, as Kenyans, we might have no say in how our money is being wasted by our democratically elected governments.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
CEO KCDN Nairobi
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  1. Fiona MatiApril 2, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    I totally agree that the kazi kwa vijana programme was ill thought and does not recognise or even respect the rights of Kenya's youth.

    As you suggest, removing hyacinth and probably using it to make products for sale would be a more viable and (more)attractive solution for youth unemployment.

    However, I believe the initiative is just a PR stunt for the government to pretend to be interested in the youth.

    If the National Youth Policy has never been implemented, then how can we expect anything positive and sustainable to be done for Kenya's youth?

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