{"id":1845,"date":"2016-01-15T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:27:45","slug":"schools-green-initiative-challenge-gears-up-for-3-day-capacity-building-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/schools-green-initiative-challenge-gears-up-for-3-day-capacity-building-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Green Initiative Challenge Gears Up for 3-Day Capacity Building Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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School patrons and teachers from institutions participating in the Schools Green Initiative Challenge will benefit from a three-day capacity building exercise set for the 20th – 22nd at the various centres in the three counties of Kitui, Machakos & Embu.<\/p>\n

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Participating “green” teachers in the afforestation challenge gear up for the capacity building.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The training, facilitated by the sponsors, KenGen Foundation, Better Globe Forestry and Bamburi Cement will empower the participants with technical knowledge on good tree nursery management, planting methods and seedling nurturing practices. They will in turn transfer the skills to the students involved in the afforestation competition.<\/p>\n

Apart from gaining in-depth knowledge of the characteristics of the GIC tree and fruit species, participants will also learn various nursery management practices including weeding, seed propagation, pest and disease control, and best practices in sustainable water harvesting. <\/p>\n

The ten-year schools competition is a KenGen Foundation program in partnership with Better Globe Forestry and Bamburi Cement Limited that targets a total of 900 schools in the semi-arid counties of Embu, Machakos and Kitui. So far 120 schools have registered, with an additional 120 schools scheduled to be added to the competition annually.<\/p>\n

The GIC expansion project targets the greening a total of 460 acres with 324,300 tree seedlings as well as 113,956 fruit seedlings (passion and pawpaw) The program includes 2 capacity building sessions and 2 Monitoring and Evaluation sessions per year for all participating.<\/p>\n

The Green Initiative Challenge aims to raise the awareness and participation of school children in environmental conservation activities. The sustainable management of tree nurseries and woodlots will provide the participating schools with a renewable source of wood fuel thus reducing pressure on surrounding vegetation and forest resources.<\/p>\n

It also accords the schools an opportunity to diversify their income through the sale of timber & non-timber products. Even higher benefits are the project\u2019s contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases through carbon sequestration, and the control soil erosion by increasing topsoil infiltration & reducing runoff.<\/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 use of innovation. The best performing schools stand to benefit from education scholarships, infrastructural developments, water tanks, and rainwater-harvesting and cash awards among others.<\/p>\n

-Ernest Nyamasyo, Communications Officer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School patrons and teachers from institutions participating in the Schools Green Initiative Challenge will benefit from a three-day capacity building exercise set for the 20th – 22nd at the various centres in the three counties of Kitui, Machakos & Embu. The training, facilitated by the sponsors, KenGen Foundation, Better Globe Forestry and Bamburi Cement will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,53,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kengenfoundation.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}