Welcome to KCDN

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 18, 2012

Waste Management taking shape

Friends of A Clean Kenya,
We are moving well with the issue of proper waste management. Two Consultative Strategic Planning Sessions at the Ministry
of Environment and Mineral Resources between the Government and Community Based Organizations handling Waste and Garbage have taken place.The  meetings have been co-chaired by Mr. FN Kihumba on behalf of the PS and Mr. Titus Simiyu- the Provincial Director of Environment.
In one of the meetings, Ms Judy Karume- The Environment Manager at Tetra Pak Eastern Africa took the groups through a recycling process for Tetra Pak packaging waste. This will be piloted within Nairobi in due course.
NEMA is also taking the cue very well, garbage collectors will be required to issue clients with four dustbins or plastic paper bags of different colours to empty their waste materials. The colour of the container will be the determinant of where to put the waste. Green container will take care of kitchen wastes (organic matters), white will be for recycling materials such as polythene papers, blue will be for industrial wastes such as computer while black is expected to carry the general waste.The move is expected to influence a positive change of attitude and behavior towards the environment.
Read more about this in the latest Relect  issue 71, the article about NEMA plans to make Nairobi and its environs cleaner.
The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC is happy that what we have been advocating and agitating for is finally becoming policy. seperation and recyling waste as a proper way to manage waste.This is the surest way to reduce the waste menace in our neighborhoods.
We appreciate all partners who are making this happen, those who have supported our cleanups across counties, sensitization and awareness campaigns, particularly A Better World/SOF-DI and Akiba Uhaki Foundation, the media houses who have taken this up, the various groups across counties engaged in The Clean Kenya Campaign, colleges/universities who are leading various awareness campaigns, the various Ministries, Municipal and Town Councils.
Together, we can achieve a clean Kenya as Kenya turns 50 years next year.

Otieno Sungu,
The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC
0729294743.

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