Melia Volkensii, an endogenous hardwood and the KenGen Foundation’s School Green Initiative Challenge flagship tree species, was the main focus during a forestry stakeholders’ workshop held at the University of Nairobi, Kabete Campus held on 30th August. The workshop convened to discuss the challenges, benefits and way forward of cultivating Melia volkensii, was graced by... Read More

One of the interventions outlined in Kenya’s Strategy for reaching 10 per cent forest cover is the use of technology in forest regeneration, protection and planting. As a result, drone technology is one of the possibilities being touted as potentially capable of reaching this goal. According to Anthony Igecha, Managing Trustee of the KenGen Foundation,... Read More

A visit to KenGen PLC Kipevu Power Station on the second day of their excursion was an eye opener for the thirty Ielanthi Primary School students on 5th June. The pupils were awarded an educational trip courtesy of the Schools Green Inititative Challenge for emerging tops in Phase IV of the tree planting competition. A... Read More

Arriving at the end of KenGen Kamburu Power Station’s descending tunnel, 30 young environmentalists from Ndelekeni Primary School, Machakos County, gazed in amazement at the massive machinery and rumbling turbines as they prepared for their tour of the power plant on 26 May. The students, accompanied by their Green Teachers Raphael Mbithi and Boniface Mukanda,... Read More

Arriving at the end of KenGen Masinga Power Station’s , 30 young environmentalists from Kamathitu Secondary School, Mwingi County, gazed in amazement at the massive machinery and rumbling turbines as they prepared for their tour of the power plant on 29 September. The students, accompanied by their Green Teachers William Mukundi and Peter Mutua, Principal... Read More

A field trip by a team from KenGen Foundation to Murang’a County community bamboo growing project sites was conducted on 19 January in partnership with bamboo experts Green Pot Enterprises, and representatives from Water Resource Users Association and the local government. Ambrose Njagi, the Foundation’s Senior Fundraising Officer was accompanied by Ernest Nyamasyo, Elishibah Msengeti... Read More

KenGen Foundation and KenGen PLC on 16 May distributed 90 waste bins to the Kwa Muhia community, Naivasha, through the Kwa Muhia Environmental Group (KMEG), a local Community Based Organization involved in waste management. The waste bins were donated under KenGen PLC’s Employee Giver Initiative as a pilot Sustainable Solid Waste Management (SSWM) project to... Read More

Kanzinwa Primary School, Kitui County, was recognized as the winner of Phase V of KenGen Foundation’s flagship environmental conservation programme the Schools’ Green Initiative Challenge, a school based afforestation competition located in the semi-arid counties of Embu, Machakos and Kitui on 17 May. Kanzinwa Primary beat 99 other competing schools in the two year competition... Read More

The KenGen Foundation demonstrated yet another act of philanthropy on January 4 during a project site visit with the Foundation’s Managing Trustee Mr. Anthony Igecha and staff Givers from Kipevu Power Station at Amani Primary School in Mombasa County. The team expressed their satisfaction at the recent construction and refurbishment of the school’s ablution block.... Read More