Wildlife Clubs of Kenya

Category: Mobile Education Unit | Date: Nov 07 2007 | By: admin

The Mobile Education Unit (MEU) has been and continues to be one of the most popular conservation education programmes of Wildlife Clubs of Kenya. It is an outreach programme that reaches Wildlife Clubs at grassroots level countrywide taking conservation messages in a lively and entertaining way. The MEU travels to schools in most parts of Kenya and in most cases remote areas of the country where electricity and water have yet to reach and poverty levels are highest.

Gabriel Ngale-The Mobile Education Unit Officer reports:

In the Month of October the Unit visited schools in the far flung areas of Nairobi region including Amboseli, Kiambu, Limuru, Ruiru and the Athi kapiti Plains. In a period of two weeks 14 schools and over 4,000 school children were reached. Hundreds of the children from these secluded schools in remote areas benefited from this free program. For the first time in their lives they were shown enticing films about wildlife. They also received some educational wildlife magazines to read. Gabriel gave talks on why and how to conserve wildlife as well as activities that can be started. Schools that form wildlife clubs have many priviledges including visiting Kenyas National Parks at no cost and they can get accommodation at Wildlife Clubs of kenya hostels in various National Parks.
The entire program was fun and educational and the school kids are calling for more of such programs.

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Category: Komba Magazine | Date: Nov 05 2007 | By: admin

Komba is an exciting magazine put together by the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya. It is the only free magazine on wildlife and environment conservation in Kenya distributed to over 2,000 WCK Clubs (200,000 students).

Komba is published thrice a year to complement the Kenyan school term. Research scientists, teachers and students with a passion for wildlife contribute the articles.

Komba’s goal is to promote wildlife and environment conservation. For that reason, it is not sold as many of the readers are poor and selling it is like denying them the opportunity to participate in conservation.

Yet in today’s world, our wildlife is at risk from over exploitation and misuse and we need to educate our youth in every way we can. It is always a challenge to keep printing and distributing Komba to over 2,000 Wildlife Clubs countrywide. Annually, we need 27,000 US Dollars, if we are to continue producing Komba for the youth.

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Category: Annual Competition | Date: Nov 05 2007 | By: admin

In an effort to promote Wildlife and Environmental Education, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya runs an annual Art Competition. The competition is open to students from Primary to Secondary schools and Tertiary institutions. This year, 2007, the Competition theme was: THE WILD BEAUTY OF KENYA.

Entries were received from different parts of the country. Experts in Fine Art were invited to assess, and selected the following winning entries from the different categories. Wildlife Clubs of Kenya plans to award the winners individually and also organise a one week trip for this group of 24 students to different National Parks in Kenya along the Coast through the world popular Tsavo National Park.

This six day trip will cost only 2,000 US Dollars, and WCK is appealing for help from friends to make this trip a reality. It will be both educational and fun filled and to most of the participants this will be an experience of their lifetime that will change their course of career in life.

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