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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, October 25, 2012

Clean-ups on the 27th October across kenya

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
On Saturday the 27th October 2012, we will join with the Wakulima Market Traders in Cleaning Wakulima Market, and again, with our Partners in Majengo-Sofia Slum area in Kamukunji Constituency. 
We at The Clean Kenya Campaign will be joining hands with our colleagues and Partners at Majengo for their Clean-up.
There will also be several Clean-ups across Kenya, and we are inviting all our Friends to do something in their immediate neighbourhoods.
As we approach this, we want to share a few thought processes with you. We are happy that the Concept of Clean-ups is taking root across Kenya.
We firmly believe that Clean-ups in themselves are of no value. We must invest in Massive Awareness Campaigns that make the Public know the importance of Clean-ups. This is why at Majengo, our Partners- St Johns Community and Pygron, did host a Planning and Awareness Meeting on the 22nd October 2012 to help mobilize for the main event as they created more awareness on Waste and Garbage.
If we invest in time and resources, we can never have such scenes in our midsts
Again, Clean-ups cannot succeed by themselves. We must invest our time and resources to make them work. In Rwanda, the Government has made massive investment on Omuganda and it is celebrated as a model that works. Our Councillors often travel to Rwanda- just to see how Clean Kigali is.
Kigali did not just happen to be Clean. The Port City of Asmara is not the Cleanest Town in Africa by default. A lot has been invested in the process and the result is what we are appreciating.
In Kenya, we must hence also invest in time and resources to make our Towns Clean. Anything other than this will not fly.
We are happy that we have sustained this Campaign and now, major players are stepping in. We have been advocating for Separation of waste at Source, and we are happy that in Partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Tetra-Pak Eastern Africa and others, this is being piloted in Nairobi right now.
We are also happy that we have been pushing for conversion process- where waste is used as a raw resource. This is taking root and we will be rolling a Training Programme that targets many of our Partners with a view to making them know that Waste is Wealth.
We are also rolling a Campaign with the University Students for a Clean Kenya. This Campaign is involving all University Students in Kenya and in this Partnership with A Deeper understanding of the Eco-System, we will work with the University Students to help advance the three Thematic Areas that drive The Clean Kenya Campaign namely;
  1. Environmental Management,
  2. Peace Building, and
  3. Good Governance. 
Lastly, we are working closely with DHLAT Global Collaborators to introduce a Comprehensive School Health Education in the School Curriculum in Africa. We firmly believe that we will be all the better if we infuse aspects of Environmental and Health Education to our children at School level. 
These are issues that will never happen by themselves. They need our constants intervention and vigilance.
Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign
The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya in partnership with A Deeper understanding of the Eco-System
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