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.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

TCKC visits EcoPost



Friends,
Cleaning Kenya cannot just happen by itself. It must be made to happen.

It is now abundantly clear that our vision for a Clean Kenya is materializing and the dream is beginning to transform into reality.

These past weeks, The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC continued networking and have brought on board strategic partners whose input will add value to the process. In our belief to launch pilot training on waste recycling for waste collectors across Kenya, we met Madam Lorna Korir, Mr Charles Kalama and her team at ECOPOST yesterday the 9th Nov 2012 and the discussions centered on the training process, logistics and management for the same. The details for this training are being fine tuned by both teams.
This is what we call Tasking- EcoPost are just not talking. They are making Poles from Plastic and Flimsy Waste
We also visited one of the processing areas in Kariobangi where waste was being sorted out before being shredded. And I can tell you, we are living badly; waste is swallowing us everywhere.
Please visit our Facebook Pages to see the visual images of what we are talking about. 

Our Executive Director also had crucial meetings with Mr and Mrs Copple. We must say that the enthusiasm and faith in working for a better environments by the Copple couple from the USA is similar to what the Frey couple from Switzerland have shown. Engagements with them and their teams are breathing renewed life into The Clean Kenya Campaign and we will share with our networks the details as we firm and fine tune them. 
Taking a well deserved rest; Ms Lorna Ruto, Oto, Mr. Charles Kalama and Mr. Otieno Sungu at EcoPost
They will be very key to the media strategy to ensure issues of environment and waste management are brought to the fore of our national agenda. We are in firm agreement with this team and their networks that underlying how well me manage and tackle issues of food security, health, job creation, conflicts, and societal social challenges is the environmental link. Our physical and social environments must be clean in order for us to enjoy the joys of quality lives.

This networking has not been for nothing, we are now firmly grounding Kenyans for a Clean Kenya and various groups are emerging and taking firm control of this process within their various capacities. The first on board and off the blocks were the University Students for A Clean Kenya. Now, through Bishop William Abuka and others, the Religious Leaders for A Clean Kenya is taking shape. We are in talks with lawyers to ground Lawyers for A Clean Kenya. In the offing and in discussions too are Teachers for A Clean Kenya, Jua Kali Artisans for A Clean Kenya, Sportsmen for A Clean Kenya, Doctors for A Clean Kenya, Celebrities for A Clean Kenya, Accountants for A Clean Kenya  and even MPs for a Clean Kenya among others. You cannot fail to find where you fit in this!
Our Kenyan problem; Waste at every corner. This is Kariobangi along Outer Ring Road

We must undertake to organize Monthly Cleanups, Environmental Awareness Campaigns and Health Education within our neighborhoods. We must ensure that we declare war against poor disposal of waste and above all, we must appreciate the value chain of proper management of waste as a resource. This calls to question the issue of separation of waste at source for recycling and conversion. We must all do this to ensure a structured process of waste management, ensure we make waste a resource and raw material by not mixing it all up, protect our health by ensuring proper disposal of waste, protect our brothers and sisters in the waste management sector by ensuring dangerous waste does not end up poorly disposed in the waste stream as is the case with medical and industrial waste and protect our food and water sources from contamination. Are we in shock why increasingly, deaths in our obituary columns are about death from cancer bravely borne?

Unless we are the proverbial ostriches who don’t want to acknowledge the obvious, cancers are emanating from our poor management of the environment which contaminates what we breathe, eat, drink, touch and smell. Cancers do not come from Mars; we manufacture, ferment and foment them here on earth, right in our households, factories, schools and colleges, hospitality industry, offices,  markets, prisons and virtually everywhere and then dispose them into the environment to get the victims; us.

We must start the journey to kick cancers out of our country. That fight begins with how you handle your waste. Do you mix it up, throw it on the streets, out of your car window, dump it in rivers and water sources?
Wheel Barrow Tyres made from Waste

It will grow your leafy vegetables yes, with all the attendant chemicals from the hospitals, sanitary waste, industrial waste, sewerage and all. It will “burble in the water you drink” from the taps and before long, you will die after a bravely borne fight with cancer, another statistic in what we could easily begin managing.

Each one of us has every reason to become A Clean Kenya Environmental Corp; in our jobs, education and studies, professions, portfolios, callings, vocations, hobbies, responsibilities and family life. We must raise an environmentally conscious society and bequeath this to the next generation. We must become the heroes/heroines of God’s gift to man; Cleanliness.

The environment is hurting from our lack of care, we must heal Kenya, Africa and the whole World in the words of the late Michael Jackson; Heal The World, Make it A better Place for ourselves and the entire children race.

We are Clean Kenya Environmental Corps, we are The Clean Kenya Campaign and you can join us by just joining in your professions’, vocations’, hobbies’, study group, interest group of The Clean Kenya Campaign and begin doing something about cleaner, safer and decent environment.

We must acknowledge the following groups who are firmly members of The Clean Kenya Campaign, we are cleaning Kenya and we are growing big;

  1. Public Service Transformation Department at The Office of The Prime Minister- Head; Mr. Emmanuel Lubembe. 
  2. A Better World/SOF-DI, Team Leader; Mrs. Brigit Frey, Founder. 
  3. Akiba Uhaki Foundation, Team Leader;Mr Kepta Ombati, Programmes Coordinator. 
  4. Ministry for Environment and Mineral Resources-Team Leader; Mr. Mohamed Ali, PS. 
  5. Ministry for Public Health and Sanitation, Team Leader; Dr Kepha Ombacho- Chief Public Health Officer. 
  6. Ministry for Nairobi Metropolitan Development, Team Leader;Arch Phillip Sika- PS. 
  7. Ministry for Local Government, Team Leader; Prof Karega Mutahi- PS. 
  8. Ministry for Education, Team Leader; Prof George Godia- PS. 
  9. Ministry for Medical Services, Team Leader;Hon Professor Anyang Nyongo- Minister. 
  10. Ministry for Youth and Sports, Team Leader; Hon Ababu Namwamba- Minister.
  11. City Council of Nairobi, Team Leader, Mr. Tom Patrick Odongo- Town Clerk. 
  12. Municipal Council of Mombasa, Team Leader, Mr.Tubman Otieno- Town Clerk. 
  13. Municipal Council of Kisumu, Team Leader, Mr. Chris Rusana- Town Clerk. 
  14. Municipal Council of Eldoret, Team Leader, Mr. Stansilas Ondimo- Town Clerk. 
  15. Municipal Council of Kakamega, Team Leader, Mr. Newton Mkabue- Town Clerk. 
  16. Municipal Council of Nyeri, Team Leader, His Worship the Mayor Cllr Edward Muteru.
  17.  National Environment Management Authority, NEMA-Team Leader; Mr. Titus Simiyu- Director  Nairobi County. 
  18. CHF International, Team Leader; Madam Selin Korir- Director, Kenya Tuna Uwezo Program. 
  19. Mugumo Communications Limited, Team Leader; Mr. Rashid Juma-CEO. 
  20. Ecopost, Team Leader; Madam Lorna Korir- CEO. 
  21. Kenya Association of Manufaturers, Team Leader, Beatrice Kithinji. 
  22. National Environment Trust Fund, NETFUND, Team Leader, Joan Kimani- Communications and Awards Manager. 
  23. University Students for A Clean Kenya, Team Leader, Ms Wilkister Onyango- ADE. 
  24. Religious Leaders for A Clean Kenya, Team Leader, Bishop Dr William Abuka. 
  25. Kibera Youth and Women Networks, Usalama, Team Leader, Mr. Dairus. 
  26. Pumwani Youth Networks-PYGRON- Team Leader,Mr. Stephen Singano. 
  27. Usalama Viwandani, Team Leader, Mr. James Kanga. 
  28. Tetra Pak Eastern Africa, Team Leader, Judy Karume- Environment Manager. 
  29. National Youth Trust, Team Leader, Mr Nahum Okwiya- Executive Director, AYT. 
  30. Foresight Technologies, Green Tech Solutions, Team Leader, Mr Mohamed Ahmed Shah, CEO. 
  31. Kounkuey Design Initiative, KDI,Team Leader, Mr. Joe Mulligan, Country Director. 
  32. Bamburi Larfage, Team Leader, Madam Magdalene Mwende, Ecology Manager. 
  33. Christian Industrial Training Centre- Team Leader- Mr. Ephantus Mwangi- Manager.
  34. Africa Alive/Dance 4 Life-Team Leader, Mr. Gorge Oyare, Programs Officer.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 



Otieno Sungu,

Director; Programmes and Communication

The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC

The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya
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