Work has to go on!
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 08 2008 | By: admin
Despite what is happening on the political scene, conservation work has to go on. Wildlife Clubs of Kenya has been out in the different parts of Kenya spreading conservation education Messages to the youth. In the month of January the Mobile Education Unit was joined by Mr. Sayira from Mkomazi National Park in Tanzania. The management of Mkomazi National Park hopes to start their own Mobile Education Programme and where else could they learn the skills of running a Mobile Education Unit other than Wildlife Clubs of Kenya. Mr. Sariya spent two weeks with our Mobile Education Officer Mr. Ngale talking to children of Kajiado district about wildlife. At the end of these two weeks they had reached over 6,000 kids with education talks, distributed magazines and shown films on wildlife. In the words of Mr. Sariya ” Asante WCK, nimejifunza Mambo mengi kweli” Tanslated as “Thank you WCK, I have learnt alot of things”.
Below: Mr. Sariya of Mkomazi National Park in Tanzania on a light moment with Kids at a school in Kajiado District - Kenya.
Currently Mr. Ngale is visiting schools around the Mount Kenya region. This three weeks trip will take him to Nanyuki, Isiolo, Meru, Maua, Embu, Chuka before coming back to Nairobi. Mr. Ngale will then move to the Eastern Region in March, visiting Machakos, Kitui, Makueni and Mwingi districts. On this trip Mr. Ngale shall be joined by Mr. Kazufumi Saibe aka “Kazu”. Kazu is a Japanese Volunteer from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) attached to Wildlife Clubs of Kenya.
Above: Kids in a classroom watching a Wildlife Film
Special thanks to Steve and your wife in Canada for the interest you have shown in our work and we look forward to working with you. We need people like you who believe in our work and surely we can work together to educate the youth of Kenya and the world.
2007 Annual Competition trip
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 30 2008 | By: admin
Last year competition trip went very well. 24 students from different schools in Kenya participated. They visted Tsavo, Mombasa and Malindi Marine Parks. Many of them were visiting Mombasa for the first time. They were able to see underwater creatures and had fun. They also learnt so many new things about marine creatures too.
On their trip they worked at the Watamu Turtle Watch Centre. We would like to thank the following for their support:
International Fund for Animal Welfare(IFAW)
African Fund for Endangered Wildlife(AFEW)
Ker and Downey
General Motors East Africa(GM)
Tetra Pak
The following are photos of the group and the areas they visited:
Mobile Education Unit
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.
Komba
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.
Annual Competition
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.
Welcome to Wildlife Clubs of Kenya
Category: Our Mission | Date: Oct 30 2007 | By: admin
WCK is a Kenyan success story, but are are challenged to keep pace with the number of school children who are hungry for knowledge of their country, its magnificent wildlife resource, and challenges to their own and wild environments.
Half of Kenya’s population (35 million) is 18 and under, and we simply do not have 10 or 15 years to make a big difference to the future well being of Kenya’s natural environment. We may instead have only two or three years to consolidate a new generation of conservation minded young Kenyans.
We need a critical mass of future leaders, teachers, parents who associate African wildlife with the positive experiences they had in a Wildlife Club during their school days. WCK activities are well conceived, educational and fun for kids; it’s just that we urgently need to multiply our activities to reach more children, more quickly.
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