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The best environment for our lives

Organisation Institute for Development and Welfare Services (IDEWES)
Site web https://nl-nl.facebook.com/ideweske/about/
Pays Kenya
Type NGO
Thème Environment

Résumé

IDEWES is working in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi. This programme, called 'Mazingira bora maisha yetu - The best environment for our lives' is meant to reduce the number of waterborne diseases due to poor sanitation, lack of garbage collection and dropping points, and a poor piping system. IDEWES decided that, together with key stakeholders, they would involve schools in environmental education and the formation of environmental clubs. Moreover, community awareness was raised through forums and dialogues, and also environmental debates, sport events and art. Grassroots organisations dealing with solid waste management received training and a Kibera Environmental Day was organised.

Analyse du problème

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi and the biggest slum in Africa with an estimated population of approximately 250.000. There are lots of problems within Kibera including the following:
- Waterborne diseases due to poor sanitation, lack of garbage collection and dropping points, and poor piping systems.
- Poor waste management and lack of safety gears during waste collection within the households.
- Inadequate knowledge to conserve resources in the schools and in the community.
- Poverty has increased the use of non-renewable energy such as wood fuel, which has led to the destruction of the nearby indigenous Ngong forest.
- Inadequate awareness and advocacy on environmental interventions within Kibera slums.

Analyse de la solution

Through Mazingira Bora Maisha Yetu project, IDEWES aims to achieve the following:
- Reduction of diseases caused by poor sanitation. 
- Increased knowledge and skills on protecting and conserving the environment to achieve sustainable development goals. 
- Poverty reduction through food security in rearing pigs and formation of savings groups (karatasi ni pesa - 'paper is money').
- Increased number of beneficiaries understand their environmental rights. 
- Enhanced problem solving and decision making in environmental matters as society and key duty bearers are engaged. 
- Increased public awareness and knowledge of environmental impact and mitigation measures.
- Empowerment of children on environmental art as source of income within their clubs.
- Enhanced participation of children, youth and women on the importance of environmental sustainability.
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