On 23rd of August Jacob met with Joseph a former Kajire student who just wanted to inform him about his new group and his efforts fighting bush meat trade in Kajire.

He was one of the students we trained to gather seeds and make their own tree nurseries at Kajire secondary school. He took the idea very seriously and now has his own tree nursery at home. He also formed a group with the aim of changing the environment of Kajire by planting as many trees as they can and also informed us that as a group they are thinking of ways to help in educating other youths in their area so that they can change the attitude of cutting down trees for charcoal burning and to reduce the bush meat trade in the area.

Great work Joseph and the whole group!

Jacob D.  has been working a great deal around Voi and surrounding areas from May to July.

There was the World Environment Day celebrated at Moi Stadium and at Mwangea Primary School, with film shows and town cleanups, tree planting, and a good community turnout.  He has also worked showing films in all the schools and communities in conjunction with the Voi Youth Forum and with Ingrid Marie Relling, a Norwegian teacher at Voi Primary School.

The Voi Youth Forum and Ms. Relling are working to help schools to form Environment Clubs to raise interest and concern amongst the students. It is such a good idea and Amara Conservation is happy to assist in any way we can.

Our first field projector seems to have reached the end of it’s very useful and long life (10 years is pretty amazing given what it has gone through), and a new one is on it’s way.