Environmental Conservation

Using Locally available materials to abate exploitation of forests.

Kenya is facing unprecedented development challenges, but even bigger opportunities. It is a country with a wonderfully rich culture and history, and Kenya share a strong sense of natural identity it is blessed with a sounding natural resources and beauty.
Experts describes the it as a with much potential but a disappointing under achiever.
Poverty, food insecurity, HIV/AIDS, gender inequality and environmental degradation all confront the country. In the last three decades the number of food insecure people in Kenya has more doubled,
• Over the same period. GDP per capita growth averaged negative 1%
• Malnutrition in Kenya’s children rose by 70% of the period 1970 -2001
• Per capita income of about $ 312 per year was lower in 2002 than $350 in 1975
• Rural women produce up to 80% of the food but access only 10% of the credit, receive less than 5% of the extension service and own only a fraction of the land.

About 1 tone of soil nutrients are lost annually from Kenya’s soil because of cultivating the same piece of land year in – year out.
Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations has stalled in Kenya. 75% of the of the poor live in rural areas, sustaining their existence by farming small plots or breeding cattle, sheep, goats, chicken, donkeys or camels for income. Healthcare and agriculture are central to improving the lives of the poor.

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