KEEP Kipsaina Education and Environment Partnership

30/08/2021

Maurice over-seeing the final KCWCG production of hand washing stations for our 2021 Masks for Kenya programme. These will be delivered to Schools across Western Kenya to help keep children and staff safe in the new term. We are planning to scale up the production of these stations and create youth employment as part of the WASH+ programme.

08/05/2021

Great to know there is a network of people who care about Crowned Cranes - these are a flagship species: healthy cranes, healthy wetlands, healthy communities!

These are Grey Crowned Crane chicks, The Uganda's National Bird. Did you know this species is endangered? Stop illegal trade and Conserve wetlands to mitigate their extinction.

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International Crane Foundation KEEP Kipsaina Education and Environment Partnership

16/04/2021

Maurice planting 150 flowering trees around Kitale Town with young people affected by COVID crisis. Great publicity through local radio interviews. Highlighted the negative impacts of COVID on mental well-being and personal conflict. Our partnership support of Peace Advocacy through Rotary Digital Bridges will aim to address some of these issues. More details to come soon.

21/03/2021

Our Masks for Kenya project has made it into the Kenyan national news - huge congratulations to Barney School for supporting the appeal and to Maurice Wanjala for making it all work!

As candidates across the country prepare for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education schools for children wit...

20/03/2021

Photos from Maurice’s deliveries this week from our Masks for Kenya appeal to both CBM Secondary and Primary schools for the physically disabled. This includes the hand washing stations designed and built locally, which were also delivered to St Anthony School for the Deaf. So far, we have spent less than £3000, so plenty more schools still to go.

The other piece of heartwarming news from Maurice was that the tailoring cooperative making the masks in Eldoret, on learning that these first deliveries were going to children with disabilities, spontaneously offered to make each child three masks for the price of two - and this is what we have delivered.

We have taken the decision to spend some of the money on buying a welding kit in order that we can take full control of the remaining hand washing station manufacturing - this will involve training up local young people and generate sales beyond the Masks for Kenya funding.

28/02/2021

Barney School have been working flat out to raise money for the KEEP "Masks for Kenya" appeal. We are currently on an amazing £5500 - far beyond our original appeal target of £2000. Maurice has received the first consignment of the specially commissioned masks and these will be delivered to St Anthony School for the Deaf this week. Anyone wanting to contribute to the appeal should follow this link: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/displayCharityCampaignPage.action?charityCampaignUrl=Masks4Kenya

28/01/2021

Today sees the launch of Masks for Kenya, a collaboration with Barnard Castle School and Kipsaina Crane and Wetland Conservation Group to provide Covid face masks and handwashing stations to St Anthony's School for the Hearing Impaired and Nalondo CBM Special National Secondary School for the Physically Handicapped. Please help us by donating and sharing this link:

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22/09/2020

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This is the start of our fundraising drive for our HUGE Rotary International Kipsaina WASH+ project

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03/09/2020

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“With the Rotary club of Kitale, our Kipsaina WASH Plus project aims to provide clean water to 8000 people in Western Kenya while protecting one of Kenya’s most important wetlands. https://t.co/gJWPiIGWTy Expressions of interest welcome to: [email protected]”

08/07/2020

Breaking news. These are images of the huge Africa Water Bank rainwater harvesting tanks we are proposing to build around the Saiwa Swamp Wetland ecosystem in collaboration with KCWCG and Rotary International. Phase 1 of our joint plan with Barnard Castle and Kitale Rotary Clubs will see four of these tanks being installed, along with wider WASH sanitation facilities. The longer term plan is to install up to 13 tanks in 6 communities right round the Wetland, massively reducing environmental impact of water extraction and massively reducing waterborne disease.