otieno sungu 4:45 am (16 hours ago)
date Sep 6, 2009 4:45 AM
subject Re: Fw: Komarock Community Arboretum

Ndugu Oto,

This is what we have been saying all along, Talking less and Tasking more. If the MAU issue was dealt with the same way, we would be at the point of starting to conserve it, but as it is, talking is doing more on the Mau issue and many others that need conservation.

Let us do our little bits in the conservation efforts that we can instead of procrastinating.

We, the friends of KCDN will walk with you on this matter even as we talk less and Task more, in 6 months time, we will look back and see an example of what Talking less and Tasking more can do.

Keep the spirit, the journey has just begun.

Otieno Sungu.
Juba-Southern Sudan(A Friend of KCDN and The Eco Challenge).

odhiambo okecth 3:55 am (17 hours ago)

date Sep 6, 2009 3:55 AM
subject Fw: Komarock Community Arboretum

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from odhiambo okecth 3:11 am (18 hours ago)
Sep 6, 2009 3:11 AM
subject Fw: Komarock Community Arboretum

Komarock Community Arboretum 5th September 2009

On 5th September 2009, we all converged at Komarock to clean the Komarock Canal and plant trees along the same Canal. And what a show it was? We ware sharing a comprehensive plan of action and report with our strategic partners.

Besides KCDN and the KCDN Team, we had Mr. Robert Mutuma from the Eco Challenge [Total Kenya Ltd], Ms Anne Kagumba, the CAO City Inspectorate, Mr. Reginald Okumu from Tribe Kenya Initiative and formerly, chairman of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya, Ms Grace Wanjiru, Divisional Commander, City Inspectorate Embakasi Division, Mr. Peter Kariuki, Ward Manager Komarock Ward, Ms Mellen Kinaru, Secretary General Komarock Residents Association, Mr. Elijah Kombo [PhD Talking], Ms Arinolah Elizabeth-Nite, Friends of KCDN and many parents/guardians and children.

On behalf of KCDN, I must thank Total Kenya Ltd for having enabled us to make this day a success. Besides giving us 1,000 seedlings for the event, they gave us Kshs 20,000.00 to enable our logistics. We must also thank Bishop Dr Julius Mbagaya, President of the Baptist Convention for sending to us Kshs 3,000.00, Ms Arinolah Elizabeth-Nite, Kshs 2,000.00, Mr. Otieno R Sungu Kshs 2,000.00 and Mr. Reginald Okumu Kshs 1,000.00.

We must also thank Komarocks Residents Association and the parents in the KCDN Child Support Initiative for turning up in large numbers. We had close to 700 parents in the KCDN Initiative taking part. Special mention must be made of the City Council of Nairobi through the Ward Manager Mr. Kariuki who availed staff and equipment to enable the clean up exercise to be a success.

This was the first step into making the Canal a Community Arboretum. We have a lot in our hands now, and we will appeal to several Friends to come on board and help us. We will engage 10 personnel to ensure that the seedlings are watered and that the grounds are made into what we envisage. This will cost us Kshs 5,000.00 per day, and we only appeal to more Friends, Institutions and individuals, to come on board and help us out. We ware sharing a comprehensive plan of action and report with our strategic partners led by Total Kenya Ltd.

We will invite the companies to take charge of only 100 metres of the canal and help in our efforts at Environmental Conservation. We will also invite willing individuals to help as much as they can.

In the next 6 months we want to show case what partnership can achieve for us, and we invite your support to help turn this mass of a mess into Komarock Community Arboretum. In this appeal, we will work closely with Eco Challenge, Friends of Eco Challenge and the City Council of Nairobi to ensure our dream becomes a reality. This dream includes a well done landscape with trees and golden showers, seats at the Arboretum, which Mr. Reginald Okumu has promised to contribute to, a public toilet, a library and much more.

If you are willing to work with us in this programme, kindly get in touch with us through the Eco Challenge Team at Total Kenya Ltd, or reach out to the undersigned. We make public all the support that we get.

Many thanks to all of you.

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi
Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557