KCDN Presents Cheques to needy Students

Friends,
When we hosted the Donholm Clean-up Campaign on the 6th August 2011, we did promise that we were going to pay school fee for some students.
We were given names from the District Education Officer Embakasi and today we presented cheques worth Kshs 15,000.00 to 3 such needy cases.
First, we were at Embakasi Girls Secondary School wherewe were received by Mr. Abraham Lagat and Ms Emily W Masele- the Deputy Principal.

Linet and Joyce at school today

Here, we presented Ms Joyce Kabingo- Form 1S and Ms Linet Awuor- Form2E with Kshs 5,000.00 each. Joyce has fee arrears of Kshs 38,527.00 while Linet has fee arrears of Kshs 58,690.00

Odhiambo T Oketch, a teacher, Linet, Joyce, Ms Masele and Mr. Lagat at Embakasi Girls Secondary School today

 We next went to Kayole South Secondary School where we presented Ms Mary N Mutheu Form 1G with Kshs 5,000.00. Ms Mutheu is an Orphan who is being supported by Mr.Musa Nyamae whose children are also attending the same school.

Ms Mary N Mutheu in School today

 We want to sincerely thank all the Friends of KCDN who made this happen. Specifically, we would want to thank Mr. Phillip Kisia- the Town Clerk City Council of Nairobi and Mr. Daniel Juma- Global Peace Youth Corps for donating the said moeny.

Ms Virginia Mugai- Accountant at Kayole South Secondary School, Mr.Nyamae, Ms Mutheu and Odhiambo during the presentation

We want to appeal to more Friends to step forward and help us make the change we need.
To all of us we say, Thank You.
Odhiambo T Oketch
KCDN Nairobi.

Lethargic Council Services

Friends,
Working for a Clean Country has never been easy.
As we mobilize and sensitize the people to join in and do the right thing, we have some amongst us who will continue to litter and place garbage by the next corner.
One interesting case is the scenario in Donholm Estate. We did a Clean-up Campaign there on the 6th August 2011 and the attendance was very impressive. In partnership with the City Council of Nairobi, we removed all the garbage that had been placed by the road and in the Trenches.

Outering/Jacaranda Road Junction in Donholm Nairobi

The Council employees came in very handy and we were really impressed by their resolve to keep the City Clean.
We left the Junction leading into Donholm a very clean place. But the following morning, on a Sunday, I was shocked to find a new heap of fresh garbage, now strategically placed by the road. It has now become a permanent dumping site.
Imagine, the place next to Caltex Petrol Station, just as you leave Outer Ring Road. Immediately on the road, has become a dumping site. Yet, we have Council employees, the Provincial Administration and the People!

Outering Road Donholm Round About in Nairobi

This means only one thing; We have people in employment who are not taking their work seriously. How can the people join you to do your work and immediately we finish, fresh garbage is placed right where we had cleaned. More so, it is now placed by the road side for all and sundry to see.
The Managers at the City Council of Nairobi must wake up and do their jobs. We cannot afford to keep talking and mobilizing about a Clean Country when the people whom we are paying to do exactly that are becoming lethargic. It is very annoying that for 3 weeks now, no one seems to have seen the new problem in Donholm.
If placing garbage any how at any time is meant to malign the good efforts you are doing, we should have seen some efforts at arresting these people who are dumping aimlessly by our roads. The problem is not unique to Donholm alone. Just drive across Nairobi and look outside. We are living so carelessly and the people whom we have employed to do this work seems to be living in their own world as well.
It is very sad that we have the Ward Managers, the Divisional Managers, the Assistant Chiefs, the Chiefs, the Nema People- whatever they are doing, the Environmental Officers all across Kenya. They should report such cases to their superiors for immediate action if they are unable to address the same.
Again, we would have wanted to have seen some arrests by now. How can someone come with all that garbage and come and dump the same by the road side and go away with it?
10 meters from where people are now dumping at Donholm, we have a Police Patrol Base. Honestly, what are these people doing? I thought their motto was Utumishi Kwa Wote, and these means remaining vigilant at all the times.

Embakasi Girls Secondary School; cleanliness the kind that we want across Kenya

I want to believe that setting traps for these people who dump cannot and can never be rocket science. We simply seem to have inept people handling affairs of our Councils.
Cleaning our Country is a collective undertaking that should involve all of us. But as we join in to help, we expect the people whom we are paying to do their jobs and do it correctly.
As we speak, Juja Road is a mess. Jogoo Road is a mess. People are dumping aimlessly just by these roads and the Council seems helpless in addressing these simple issues. We want to see some arrests and the sooner it is done the better for the image of the City Fathers and the Council employees.
We at KCDN -www.kcdnkenya.org  firmly believe that we the People of Kenya can help Clean Kenya.
This is a campaign for Kenya by Kenyans. Let us make it big......
If it is to be, it is up to me. A Clean  Kenya  Starts With me. A Peaceful Kenya is my Responsibility.
Disclaimer; The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is about us Kenyans. It involves all Kenyans from the various regions, religious persuasions, political thinking and we do not discriminate against any Kenyans nor any region.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch

CEO KCDN Nairobi

Nationwide Coordinator - Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
National Coordinator- Friends of KNH Maternity Unit

Can we create some order?

Friends,
In our dispatch on the 29th August 2011, we did raise the issue of informal settlements and how we can also create order in those places;
4. We must accept that order can also thrive in the informal settlements. Who says that we cannot plan how we live in the informal settlements?
Today, we have lost many of our colleagues in Kenya at Sinai in the fire tragedy that happened this morning. We want to start by sending our condolences to all those who lost their relatives and property. May the Almighty God rest their souls in eternal peace.
We also want to appreciate the Kenyatta National Hospital for their state of preparedness and how they responded to the disaster. We want to appreciate the many Emergency Service Units who responded quickly as well as our Police Force. You did us proud today.
Having said that, we want to once more impress upon Kenyans that we can indeed create order and live with it in peace for ever after. We do not want to point fingers and apportion blame. However, we want to urge the Town Clerks across all our urban settlements to implement the law without fear or favour.
Please know that we are looking up to you to help create order within our urban space.
You have the powers to realigne our informal settlements. The sad reality is, we have many amongst us who thrive on the disorder that kills our people. Such people must be told in no uncertain terms that order must be created and that Kenyans are willing to live by it. Kenyans must also respond by respecting the law and becoming very proactive in defense of the said laws.
We must stop grabbing land; land that sits by the Pipelines, Railway lines, Power lines and by the rives and water mass.
Let us not procrastinate. Let us open access roads withing the informal settlelments immediately. Let us not wait for another disaster to happen. today it is at Sinai, tomorrow it will be at Kondele, or, it will be at your immediate neighbourhood.
Let us relocate all those families living by the Railway lines. Let us move away from the Power Cables. Let us move away from the Pipelines. Let us respect these open spaces and stop salivating whenever we see such spaces.
Tragedies do occur the world over, but we must create access for emergency responses. It is only through such respect for open spaces will we be able to have some Rapid Response Mechanisms whenever we have such calamities visiting upon us.
Let us respect sound advice we receive from the professionals.
As we mourn our dead today, let us not waste more time discussion such issues in hotels. Let us move to the trenches and create some order. The time is now and the day is today. Let the Town Clerks across the whole country take charge within their jurisdictions and enforce the Building Codes. Let them ensure that we respect the dictates of our Town Planning.
We must create order and enforce the same. And the best placed people to do this are our Town and Council Clerks.
Kazi kweni Jameni. Our hearts grieve with our Mothers, Fathers, Sisters and Brothers who have lost their loved ones today at Sinai Nairobi. Once more, may God rest their souls in eternal peace.

Odhiambo T Oketch.
http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com

It has not been easy:...

The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya has never been an easy journey.

Today, we want to celebrate all Friends of KCDN who have made the following happen;
Our Journey of Hope Part 1
Our Journey of Hope Part 2
Support to KCDN from January 2011 to August 2011
Launch of The Consultative Team Members
KCDN into the Future AUF Support
KCDN Visits Thogoto Kikuyu
KCDN-Profile-28th May 2011
Friends of KCDN 8th May 2011
The Eldoret Campaign
KCDN SUPPLEMENT
The Kisii Campaign 17th June 2011
Speech by Oto to the ODM Youth 2012 Convention
Where are the Emerging Crop of Leaders
The Kisumu Clean-up Campaign on 16th July 2011
Kakamega Clean-up Campaign
The Donholm Clean up Campaign
The Nyeri Clean up Campaign


Please stay blessed.



We are looking forward to cementing our Partnership with you and more Partners. And on the 22nd October 2011, we will be hosting the National Litter Picking Day at Huruma Estate in Nairobi as from 7.00am.


A Consultative Team to help plan for this day was launched by the Hon PC Nairobi Mr. Ndirangu Njoroge and the Team is real busy at work. We will give major details on the 21sts September 2011 as soon as the 3rd Consultative Team meeting ends.


We are inviting all Kenyans whenever they are to help keep our neighbourhoods clean.


Stop throwing litter any how and stop depositing garbage in the next corner. This is our country and we must help keep her Clean.


We are looking forward to making Kenya a Clean Country as a Team.

We at KCDN firmly believe that we the People of Kenya can help Clean Kenya.

This is a campaign for Kenya by Kenyans. Let us make it a huge success......

If it is to be, it is up to me. A Clean  Kenya  Starts With me. A Peaceful Kenya is my Responsibility.

Disclaimer; The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is about us Kenyans. It involves all Kenyans from the various regions, religious persuasions, political thinking and we do not discriminate against any Kenyans nor any region.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch

CEO KCDN Nairobi

Nationwide Coordinator - Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
National Coordinator- Friends of KNH Maternity Unit

PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126
Email; oto@kcdnkenya.org, komarockswatch@yahoo.com
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Our Journey of Hope Part 1 and 2

Our Journey of Hope Part 1
Our Journey of Hope Part 2
Support to KCDN from January 2011 to August 2011

Our Journey of Hope across Kenya Part 2

Friends,       
Today we have posted Our Journey of Hope across Kenya Part 2.

In these series, we are trying to prove only one thing; that a Clean Kenya is possible.

We are also trying to prove another thing; that we are all One Family Under God. This is why we all join hands to help clean Mother Kenya and then we again join hands to make a visit to our Mothers and their New Born Children in Hospital.

The Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaign heads to Naivasha where we will host a Consultative Meeting with the local leaders tomorrow as from 9.00am. We will be discussing how best to launch The Naivasha Clean-up Campaign on the 24th September 2011.

As usual, we rely on your support and goodwill to make this happen.

We are really encouraged by the Partnerships that we are creating. We want to make it absolutely clear that The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is ours- all of us Kenyans and Friends of Kenya. It is simply a call to action.

We are proving time and again that a Clean Kenya is possible. We only need to join hands and make it work. I was really impressed on Sunday afternoon when I was watching a cycling race in Spain. The entire stretch had no pot hole on the road and there was no litter, not even a PK wrapper, a Safaricom or Airtel card, not even a BAT cigarette butt anywhere.

Why, what makes those guys keep their neighbourhoods that clean. And what madness makes us throw these things anyhow like this?

Preparations for The National Litter Picking Day is gathering momentum. The Consultative Team that was launched by Mr. Ndirangu Njoroge- the PC Nairobi on the 24th August 2011 have held 2 sessions and the Team has expanded.

We will be hosting the 3rd session on the 21st September 2011 at the PC's Boardroom and during that meeting, we will unveil our programme of action for Nairobi. We are inviting Kenyans from across the Country to start mobilizing for this day.

We want to help pick as much litter as possible across Nairobi on the 22nd October 2011. We are all invited to the Trenches for real action. And hopefully on this day, we will get some serious direction, support and encouragement from the top leadership in Kenya.

Lastly, those who would like to be of support and even be our partners in this Campaign can kindly get in touch.

We at KCDN firmly believe that we the People of Kenya can help Clean Kenya.

This is a campaign for Kenya by Kenyans. Let us make it a huge success......

If it is to be, it is up to me. A Clean  Kenya  Starts With me. A Peaceful Kenya is my Responsibility.

Disclaimer; The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is about us Kenyans. It involves all Kenyans from the various regions, religious persuasions, political thinking and we do not discriminate against any Kenyans nor any region.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi
Nationwide Coordinator - Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
National Coordinator- Friends of KNH Maternity Unit
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126
Email; oto@kcdnkenya.org, komarockswatch@yahoo.com
www.kcdnkenya.org   
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Support to KCDN From January - August 2011

Support to KCDN From January

Colleagues, Friends and Partners,
We want to be very grateful to the following Team of Friends of KCDN for their continued financial support since January 2011 towards The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign and our programmes;
January 2011

1. Veronica Kabugi Kshs 3,050.00
2. Gilbert Wafula Kshs 2,000.00
3. Brigitte Frey - A Better World -Kshs 39,000.00
4. David K Gatimu Kshs 2,000.00
5. Peter Ngoge Kshs 1,000.00
6. Rashid Juma- Mugumo Communications Ltd- Kshs 25,000.00
7. Petronila Achieng Kshs 1,025.00
8. Stephen Onyango Kshs 1,200.00
9. Samuel ND Mwangi Kshs 400.00
10. Isayah Bwana Kshs 400.00
11. Janet Ongera- Green Fingers International Kshs 20,000.00
12. Rose Kagwiria Kshs 3,000.00
13. Charles Afulo Kshs 2,500.00
14.  Lee Makwiny Kshs 300.00
15. Dorcus Alooh Kshs 625.00

February 2011

1. Joseph Kohogo Kshs 3,000.00
2. Dan Ocampo Kshs 1,000.00
3. Enoch Odhiambo Kshs 1,000.00
4. Wilson Omondi Tusker Kshs 1,000.00
5. Milliscent and Maurice Oduor Kshs 1,000.00
6. Rashid Juma- Mugumo Communications Ltd- Kshs 23,000.00 Plus car hire at Kshs 69,000.00
7. Wilson Ochanda Onguru Kshs 500.00
8. Elijah Agevi Kshs 1,000.00
9. Tubman Otieno- Town Clerk Municipal Council of Mombasa Kshs 6,000.00
10. Beatrice Gambo- Pwani Projects Development Consultants Ltd- Kshs 5,000.00
11. Government of Kenya- Greening Kenya Initiative- OPM Kshs 352,000.00
12. Grain Bulk Handlers Ltd Kshs 50,000.00
13. Dan Masetu Kshs 2,000.00
14. Fr Vincent Ouma kshs 15,145.00

March 2011

1. Sam Olendo Kshs 1,000.00
2. Dorcus Alooh Kshs 1,025.00
3. Kennedy Okwirry Kshs 2,050.00
4. David K Gatimu Kshs 2,000.00
5. Elijah Agevi Kshs 1,530.00
6. Isayah Bwana kshs 2,100.00
7. Richard Mogoko Kshs 2,000.00
8. Rose Kagwiria Kshs 1,050.00
9. Charles Obiero Kshs 1,025.00
10. John Okuku Kshs 1,025.00
11. Nixon Otieno Kshs 2,525.00
12. Bonface Omolloh Kshs 1,530.00
13. Duncan Miheso Kshs 600.00
14. Patricia Alooh Kshs 550.00
15. Alice Oketch Kshs 400.00
16. Carey Odhiambo Kshs 825.00
17. Stephen Ireri Kshs 1,000.00
18. Kinuthia Wamwangi Kshs 1,000.00
19. Andiwo Obondoh Kshs 2,000.00
20. Joshua Owuor Aduma Kshs 6,000.00
21. Rashid Juma- Mugumo Communications Ltd- Kshs 13,000.00
22. Milliscent and Maurice Oduor Kshs 2,500.00
23. Nicholas Simani Kshs 500.00
24. Evans Machera Kshs 500.00
25. Otambo Asiro Kshs 5,000.00
26. Dan Masetu Kshs 3,000.00
27. Mr. Karani Kshs 3,000.00
28. Patrick T Odongo Kshs 4,000.00
29. Eric Oyugi Kshs 1,000.00
30. Nick Odhiambo Kshs 1,000.00
31. Japheth Ouda Kshs 500.00
32. Sarah Odhiambo Kshs 700.00
33. Joseph Kohogo Kshs 6,000.00
34. Francis Raudo Kshs 5,000.00
35. Francis Oketch Kshs 1,500.00
36. Duncan Kasyoki Kshs 33,300.00
37. Symon Kanyinyo Kshs 1,000.00
38. Loice Atieno Kshs 1,000.00
39. Oduor Ong'wen Kshs 5,000.00
40. Allan Kitavi Kshs 525.00
41. Christine Ogut Kshs 2,000.00
42. Augustine Gudah Kshs 700.00
43. Sam Olendo Kshs 5,500.00
44. Alice, Caren, Edwina & Janet Kshs 2,400.00
45. Jascinta Komarock Kshs 500.00
46. Sylvester Abuodha Kshs 1,000.00
47. Dorine Oketch Kshs 525.00
48. Patrick O Kokonya Kshs 1,000.00

April 2011

1. Christian Anthony Kshs 1,000.00
2. Sam Olendo Kshs 1,000.00
3. Kepta Ombati Kshs 2,000.00
4. Akiba Uhaki Foundation Kshs 304,700.00
5. Eric Oyugi Kshs 1,030.00
6. Julius Majuek Kshs 3,000.00
7. Herbert Omondi Kshs 6,000.00
8. David K Gatimu Kshs 10,000.00
9. Dan Ocampo Kshs 10,000.00
10. Lameck Siage Kshs 10,000.00
11. Joseph Kohogo Kshs 6,000.00

May 2011

1. Richard Mogoko Kshs 1,550.00
2. Mohammed Ali Kshs 12,000.00
3. Brigitte Frey- A Better World- Kshs 63,000.00
4. Joseph Kohogo Kshs 1,000.00
5. Paul Lelei Kshs 3,030.00
6. Elijah Agevi Kshs 500.00
7. Rashid Juma Kshs 32,000.00
8. George Obara Kshs 1,500.00
9. Arthur Achola Kshs 2,000.00
10. Kamau Kiiru Kshs 1,000.00
11. Timothy Keino Kshs 1,080.00
12. Christian Anthony Kshs 1,000.00
13. Phoenix Aviation Ltd Kshs 100,000.00

June 2011

1. Municipal Council of Eldoret- Kshs 78,168.00
2. Dorcus Alooh- Kshs 2,000.00
3. Hesbon Omondi - Kshs 3,000.00
4. Janet Ongera- Green Fingers International- Kshs 35,000.00
5. Joseph Kohogo - Kshs 3,100.00
6. Lillian Mogendi- USA- Kshs 11,416.00
7. Loice Dotty - Kshs 1,000.00
8. Jack Oketch - Kshs 100.00
9. Pebo Ltd - Kshs 2,000.00
10. John Alooh - Kshs 500.00
11. Gilbert Omwenga - Green Fingers International -Kshs 1,500.00
12. Patricia Alooh - 3,000.00
13. Abraham Oyongo - Kshs 5,000.00
14. Norman Magaya - Kshs 2,000.00
15. Juliet Mwaniki- Special Needs Empowerment Programme- Kshs 2,000.00
16. Lillian Atho - Kshs 5,000.00

July 2011

1. Dr Robert Ayisi - Kshs 5,500.00
2. Dan Masetu - Kshs 4,000.00
3. Gabriel Omondi - Kshs 300.00
4. Phillip Omwayo - Kshs 500.00
5. Luke Ogono - Kshs 2,000.00
6. Joseph Kohogo - Kshs 5,500.00
7. Vivian Ogutu - Kshs 3,200.00
8. Elijah Agevi - Kshs 500.00
9. Joshua Musau - Kshs 2,000.00
10. Richard Mogoko - Kshs 7,300.00
11. Oduor Ong'wen - Kshs 4,000.00
12. Thomas Sweta - Kshs 1,000.00
13. Evans Machera - Kshs 500.00
14. Dr George Omburo - Kshs 5,000.00
15. Prof PLO Lumumba - Kshs 10,000.00
16. Kenya Airways Ltd - Kshs 50,000.00
17. Mayor Sam Okello - Kshs 10,000.00
18. Stephen Ireri - Kshs 1,000.00
19. Felix Kyalo - Kshs 1,000.00
20. William Abok - Kshs 100.00
21. Ms Brigitte Frey- A Better World - Kshs 67,851.00
22. Daniel Juma - Kshs 200.00

August 2011

1. Richard Mogoko - Kshs 10,000.00
2. Daniel Juma - Global Peace Youth Corps - Kshs 9,450.00
3. Vivian Ogutu - Kshs 1,000.00
4. Sharon Onditi - Kshs 1,425.00
5. John Omondi Ogutu - Kshs 6,000.00
6. Duncan Mwanyumba- Nairobi City Carnival - Kshs 2,000.00
7. Dr Robert Ayisi - Kshs 6,000.00
8. Friends of KCDN - 5,000.00
9. Friends of KCDN - 4,000.00
10. Phillip Kisia- Town Clerk CCN - Kshs 35,000.00
11. Selline Oketch - 1,200.00
12. Dr Edwin Otieno - Kshs 1,000.00
13. Hesbon Omondi - Kshs 650.00
14. John Kamau - Kshs 2,500.00
15. Donald Mogeni - Rotaract Club of Westlands- Kshs 1,000.00
16. Hon Prof Anyang' Nyong'o - Minister for Medical Services - Kshs 5,000.00
17. Elijah Agevi - Kshs 500.00
18. Ann Kshs 2,000.00
19. Juliet Mwaniki- Special Needs Empowerment Programme - Kshs 2,150.00
20. Orina Momanyi - Kshs 500.00
21. Paul Aol -  Kshs 300.00
22. Stephen Ireri - Kshs 1,000.00

It is this support that has made us achieve the following;
KCDN Visits Thogoto Kikuyu KCDN-Profile-28th May 2011
Friends of KCDN 8th May 2011
The Eldoret Campaign
KCDN SUPPLEMENT
The Kisii Campaign 17th June 2011
Speech by Oto to the ODM Youth 2012 Convention
Where are the Emerging Crop of Leaders
The Kisumu Clean-up Campaign on 16th July 2011
Kakamega Clean-up Campaign
The Donholm Clean up Campaign
The Nyeri Clean up Campaign

On behalf of the KCDN Team, I want to sincerely thank you for this support. We are Transforming The Monthly Nationwide Clean Up Campaign and we will give you the details shortly.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi