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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, February 14, 2013

Waste Management in South B

Dear Friends,
All roads are leading to The Kisumu Human Peace Caravan scheduled for the 16th Feb 2013.
The DC Kisumu East Mr. Willy Cheboi will flag off the event at Bamato Grounds in Nyalenda at 8.00am and the event will be led by The Administration Police Band and The Traffic Police.
In the meantime, just before the Mater Kayaba Viwandani Human Peace Caravan was flagged off at Mater Hospital, in the company of Prof Sam Moturi of The Technical University of Kenya and Chairman Institute of Packaging [Kenya], we visited some great work being done by a team of young Kenyans in South B.
I must state that The Institute of Packaging [Kenya] under Prof Moturi is doing something tremendous with waste and waste management and with the group in South B. They have embraced the process of separating waste and isolating paper and plastics for the end users.
Carton Boxes that have been sorted, waiting for transportation
This is something we need to invite Kenyans to do. To enable us manage the waste and garbage mounds that seem to overwhelm us, we must start inviting Kenyans to the Process of Separation of Waste at Source and in effect, creating employment opportunities for several people who are currently unemployed.
Proper Waste Management will see us open up waste value chains that starts with such groups as the ones in South B, where clean waste that has been separated at source is picked by a distinct group and transported to a known end user.
Prof Sam Moturi and Oto viewing the shredded papers at South B
We must stop transferring waste and garbage from one point to another. For the umpteenth time I want to drum this to our Directors of Environments in our various Councils. Transferring waste as we do from one point to Dandora and any other dumping site will NEVER solve our waste and garbage problems.
Again, it beats all logic for a Council like the City Council of Nairobi to invest Kshs 40 million every month on hiring 20 Garbage Collection Trucks. This money can be best invested in empowering groups that are doing something with waste in order to create demand for such waste lines.
Paper being weighed before transportation
Polythene can be used for several productions and all we need is to streamline the Environment Sector and bring in people who know that waste is wealth. There is simply no point of having people who know no value in waste as Environment Directors. Similarly, there is no point in employing people who only come to office to read newspapers and wait for an Environment Seminar or Conference as Waste Managers.
Such people should be removed from office and capable officers put in place; men and women who can work for a Clean Kenya.
Let us all work for a Clean Kenya, a Clean Africa and a Clean General Election as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC
The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of KCDN Kenya
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