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.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Clean ups taking root in Kenya

Dear Friends,
I am one happy man in Kenya today.
What we started in a small way is rapidly taking root and soon, it will be celebrated as a National Culture.
There will be a Clean-up Campaign tomorrow at Dandora in Nairobi and we are all invited to assemble at Dandora Primary School for the event that will kick off at 8.00am until 1.00pm.
In Kisumu, the Governor Mr. Jack Ranguma will once more lead the residents in a Clean-up on the 3rd August 2013. Kisumu has decided to host their Monthly Clean-ups every 1st Saturday of the Month while Nairobi has settled for the last Saturday of every Month. We have seen encouraging activities across our Counties that aim at working for a Clean Kenya.
We are happy we are part of this Great Transformation and we are in discussions that will harmonize all these great initiatives and turn them to one collective National effort.
To this extent, we are planning to host The 1st East African Waste Management Exto 2013 shortly and as soon as all the logistical arrangements are in place, we will make the necessary announcements on the same. 
The times are real hard for many Kenyans, and now that the Banks and other Financial Institutions will be levying 10% on each and every financial transaction, we need to coalesce and pool resources together to spur our own economic activities. The cost of essential commodities keep rising as you walk to the shops, and we are told that VAT is not being levied on such essential commodities!
I do not want to believe it. What then makes the cost of Milk rise from Kshs 36.00 a packet, to Kshs 40.00 and now to Kshs 46.00? Why is the price of Unga on the rise on a daily basis?
Someone in Government must explain to Kenyans what is happening, because, there is no point of shouting that VAT will not be levied on essential commodities, yet, the prices of such essential commodities are on the rise on a daily basis.
Residents of Nairobi joins with The Clean Kenya Campaign in The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaigns 
This calls for action from Kenyans. The best way is to pool our resources together through the Co-operative Movement and more so join hands in creating Table Banking Units that will make access to credit affordable for us.
Essential commodities are on the rise on a daily basis, and now, the cost of finance is going to be way beyond the common man. We have seen the plight of Kenyans in our Journey of Hope across Kenya with The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC, and we decided to Register Kimisho Savings and Credit Co-operative Society Ltd as our first step towards economic emancipation as we join the fight on Poverty Eradication.
Our Membership is growing and we are committed to getting it right for our Members from day one.
We have discussed our agenda with various Government Officers and other Professionals. We have met with our Members across Kenya, and now that we are duly Registered, we will be hosting our 1st AGM as Kimisho Savings and Credit Co-operative Society Ltd  on the 6th August 2013 to elect our Management Committee as is by law established. From then on, we will be on a roll.
We will be reaching out to Friends and Partners who believe in what we are doing, so that we can jointly walk in this Journey of Hope across Kenya. We will never respond to any calls for proposals as has been our tradition, but we will welcome all willing Friends to walk and partner with us on our Three Pillars-
  1. Environmental Management,
  2. Economic Empowerment,
  3. Poverty Eradication.
I think time has come when we must ask ourselves some heard question. When I have a garden and I want a bumper harvest, do I wait for a donor to come on board before I start tilling my land?
NO. Donor or no donor,
I will wake up every morning and go to my garden.
I will clear the bush in readiness of the planting season.
I will plant in time for the rains.
I will weed my crops and God willing, some will bear fruits and some will not.
Some seedlings will fall on hard rock and will be eaten by the birds,
Some will fall on thorns and will dry up.
But some will fall on moist land and will bear fruit.
Anybody who wants to help me better join me in my farm.
But one thing I am sure about; I will not become creative to win donor support and confidence. The Kenyan in me tells me so, and so be it.
You are invited to join with us and be a Registered Member of Kimisho Savings and Credit Co-operative Society Ltd and together as One Family under God, let us join hands and bake this Family Bread, for Kimisho is our Family.
Odhiambo T Oketch; the Engine behind all this.
Peace and blessings to all Mankind.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
The Team Leader/Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KIC,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; +254 724 365 557,
Email; kimishodevelopment@gmail.com komarockswatch@yahoo.com
Blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Mailing List; friendsofkcdn@yahoogroups.com friendsofnyanza@yahoogroups.com

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