Youth from Garissa becomes an Environmental Ambassador

Abdikadir Aden, the next environmental icon for Kenya has become a Regional Tunza Eco-Generation Ambassador for the youth and children worldwide and in Kenya. As a young person, Aden’s life has been full of goodwill, passion and devotion to Mother Nature. He will promote eco-generation to raise awareness of the environmental issues among the children and youth around the world.
This is a networking platform run by The Samsung Engineering Company and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) through the young people around the world. It involves series of environmental activities that an ambassador is to be engaged in and address different environmental issues both at local and global levels.
He has been selected and luckily being amongst the 28 youth worldwide and the 2nd among the two selected from Kenya who will be environmental ambassodors. To him, It has not been an easy task but he is glad to have been selected. He hopes to do a lot for his term as an Ambassodor.
To me, it means a lot to be an environmental ambassador; to be a role model for the young people and inspire them towards a better future. My biggest dream is to become a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Goodwill Ambassador and even bring the Nobel Peace Prize to Northern Kenya.
Abdikadir says, “Everything is possible. All it needs is to have faith in oneself and believe that is possible. As long as you believe in yourself, you will be whoever you want to be and there is no one who is standing infront of you from achieving it.

TREE PLANTING EVENT AT IBNU-KHALDUM INTEGRATED ACADEMY

The school tree planting activity was held at Ibnu-Khaldum Integrated Programme (IKIP). This is an early childhood development centre. We have selected this school for the event so that little school children are involved in environmental protection activities at a very low age.

Through cooperation and liaising with the school administration, we were able to get a piece of land where we planted trees.

The event target was to plant at least 50 trees in the school garden using indigenous and non-invasive tree species. The species that could do well in this climate is Neem tree “Azaridachta indica” 

Trees will be used to promote afforestation in the school community. The group officials have mobilized the members and school children for the event. The documentation of the whole session was captured by out Technical Assistant.

The objectives of the tree planting event were to:

·        To give the students a key role in environmental management

·        Increase trees cover

·        To enlighten the school community on the importance of trees

·        Conservation of bio-diversity

·        To plant trees which will absorb green houses gases

·        The trees were planted to promote afforestation in school

·        To recognize school children and teachers who are doing something on environmental protection and conservation.

·        To make students learn about environmental issues.

PROGRAMME

a.     Group officials meeting

b.     School visit

c.      Meeting with school matron

d.     Meeting the schoolteachers

e.     Group members meeting

f.       Visit to the school

g.     Land preparation

h.     Members introduction

i.        Welcoming remarks by the school matron

j.        Remarks by the Chairman

k.      Vote of thanks by a teacher

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

List of group members

i.                    Abdikadir Aden Hassan

ii.                 Sadam Rashid Adan

iii.               Musa Hassan Dek

iv.               Abdulrashid Aden Dek

v.                  Salat Ali Hassan

vi.               Bishar Yussuf

Participating school

-        Ibnu-Khaldum Integrated Programme (IKIP)

List of Teachers

1.     Fridah Kalayu

2.     Ahmed Ismail

3.     Esther Sang

4.     Iddah Nzioka

5.     Eunice Kilonzo

6.     Florence Njogu

7.     Mohamud Buthul

8.     Regina Thaimu

9.     Abdirahman Omar

Challenges

Lack of capacity by the group

Conclusion

We take back our sincere gratitude to those who took part and made the event a success. We would like to sincerely thank the students of Ibnu-Khaldum Integrated Programme (IKIP) and the group members for their time and sacrifice. It was only through their commitment that we were able to achieve our objective in ensuring a green environment..

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