{"id":1219,"date":"2015-07-28T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:43:16","slug":"green-initiative-challenge-expansion-project-schools-mapping-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/green-initiative-challenge-expansion-project-schools-mapping-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Initiative Challenge Expansion Project Schools Mapping Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preparations for the scaling up of the Schools Green Initiative Challenge<\/a> are in top gear following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between KenGen, Better Globe Forestry, and Bamburi Cement in June. The KenGen Foundation team has embarked on a mapping exercise for schools in Embu, Machakos and Kitui counties that will participate in the program. 120 new schools will be selected to participate.<\/p>\n

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Bruno Pescheux-CEO of Bamburi, Albert Mugo-KenGen Managing Director and Chairman of the KenGen Foundation, and Jean-Paul Deprins Managing Director Better Globe Forestry Limited during the signing of the MoU for the Green Initiative Challenge 24 June 2015<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The mapping exercise is expected to determine the 40 schools from each will join the Green Initiative Challenge Expansion program. The greening project aims at promoting environmental awareness through participation of students and the wider school community. It involves planting, nurturing and developing small woodlots and forests within the school compounds for environmental and commercial benefits.<\/p>\n

The KenGen Foundation\u2019s Senior Programmes Officer Anthony Igecha and KenGen Environment Officer Amos Mbutu are working with the three counties\u2019 Education Offices to gather information and locations of potential schools that will go through the selection process to ascertain their suitability of joining in the challenge.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDue to transport, monitoring, and evaluation logistics, we are working towards clustering the schools from each region close to each other. This, coupled by weather patterns in the regions within the three counties, is part of the criteria we are using in mapping and selecting the schools\u201d<\/em>, says, Anthony. <\/p>\n

The Green Initiative Challenge is a KenGen Foundation project in line with Kenya\u2019s 2030 \u2018Greening Kenya\u2019 flagship program that assists schools in water catchment and ASAL areas in tree planting activities. The program recently received a partnership funding of Ksh.120 million to expand and involve over 900 schools and 140,000 students in the next 8 years.<\/p>\n

The project is designed as a challenge to participating schools, mainly due to the dry weather conditions in the areas, with prizes awarded based on the highest survival rate of seedlings and the use of unique innovative ways to grow the trees. The best performing schools stand to benefit from attractive awards apart from infrastructural developments and education scholarships.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Green Initiative Challenge, please contact the KenGen Foundation through info@kengenfoundation.co.ke<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

For daily updates, like our Facbook page KenGen Foundation<\/a> or follow us on Twitter through KenGen_Foundatn<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

–Ernest Nyamasyo<\/a>, Communication Officer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preparations for the scaling up of the Schools Green Initiative Challenge are in top gear following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between KenGen, Better Globe Forestry, and Bamburi Cement in June. The KenGen Foundation team has embarked on a mapping exercise for schools in Embu, Machakos and Kitui counties that will participate in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,1],"tags":[72,74,73,70,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}