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EcoLearning Together Kenya-Butere
EcoLearning Together
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Location
Kenya
Type
reforestation
Size
2.383 ha
Project Description
Education on restoration for youth is at the core of the Kenya Chapter. Our goal is to incorporate environmentalism into the school curriculum and allow students to experience the fun of hands-on restoration, especially children in underprivileged backgrounds. Every EcoLearner learns about the importance of native species, understands the interconnections of ecosystems, and gets taught different restoration methods to inspire them to make change in their community. While in our nursery, schools and community members can view the trees and learn the process of restoration. After planting, we take extensive care by documenting each plant in one of our database spreadsheets and do daily observations, then weekly observations as the plants start to grow. In these observations, we provide water as needed for seedlings after transplanting. The Kenya chapter is working up to large scale planting that involves young students to connect with their environment.
Stakeholders and local communities involved in the project
Stakeholders include residents in the area, students and teachers at the schools we provide our educational resources to, and other local organizations that verify our work. We showcase our restoration plans to the public, including multiple schools, local nonprofits, and community wide meetings. By working with educational institutions, we aim to have our project verified and checked for proper environmental standards (especially by the UN Decade of Restoration). We allow volunteers from the area to help carry out our restoration or education of children in environmentalism. We are especially dedicated to including these communities:
- Youth Groups
- Women's Groups
- Educational Institutions
- Local Business and Civic Groups
Project Goals
Our EcoLearning Kenya chapter has a few overarching goals: To plant more than 25,000 trees throughout the community, work with ten different schools in the area, and reforest more than 50 hectares of degraded land. We would also like for students to come out of this project feeling more passionate and understanding the environment more.
Co-benefits
Some benefits include:
- Education: With this project, students throughout Kenya get the opportunity to learn about ecology.
- Large Scale Restoration: In our Kenya chapter, we are aiming to have a large scale restoration project that eventually continues to be taken over by youth and schools throughout Kenya. We hope to reforest multiple hectares of forest as Kenya has experienced 12,000 hectares of deforestation annually.
- Supporting Local Businesses: This project supports many community led businesses including water businesses, nurseries, gardening companies, and schools. Many of these community led businesses are also women owned.
- Recognition for communities of activism: For a long time, communities throughout the world that have long been focused on restoration were often unrecognized. This project will bring into the light multiple groups that have been ignored in the fight for climate justice and bring the recognition they deserve.
Tree species (planted and/or existing)
These are some of the main species: Grevillea spp
Maesopsis eminii
Croton megalocorpus
Markharmia lutea
Zanthoxyllum gilettii
Bridelia micrantha
Trichilla roka
Meru Oak, prunus africana, Tecoma stans, Kigelia africana, Polyscias kikuyuensis
Tree density (trees/ha)
9700
Project ID
1715486318006