From: odhiambo okecth

Thank you Allan.

We at The Clean Kenya Campaign would like to work with our Friends from the Media to further sensitize and mobilize Kenyans to The Clean Kenya Campaign where we are all responsible for the waste we all generate.

oto

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Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 8:06 AM

Dear Oketch,

Pole for the departed bro. May his soul rest in peace.

Kudos! for the good work that you have embarked on. I really get perturbed whenever I look around the roads coming and going out of Nairobi, the capital city of the biggest economy in East Africa, and the city the hosts UNEP, it is such an irony that all I see is heaps of all kind of waste. Mostly the first question that clicks in my mind is who is not doing what they are supposed to be doing. Is it the people who dump or the authorities charged with collecting the waste? But I tell myself, if everyone did what they were doing the way it was supposed to be done nothing would go wrong. That is, if the local authorities collected the waste in time, the bins would have space for more waste and MAYBE people would make use of the empty bins to throw the waste.

But it all has to start somewhere and that’s what you are doing. Good work!!

Kind Regards,

Allan Muturi
Photojournalist
(+254) 0724 459 067
t: @allanmuturi

From: odhiambo okecth
To: KCDN
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 5:01 PM
Subject: The Port City of Asmara

Friends,

As I make this posting, my heart is with my kid Sister who has just lost her Husband. May the almighty God rest his soul in peace and give my Sister the strength to bear the loss.

Now, The East Africa Youth Forum 2012 was hosted in the Port City of Asmara from the 7th July 2012. The Forum was attended by several Youth Leaders from across the whole of East Africa.

is the University of Nairobi- Chiromo Campus.

One thing that surprised all the participants was how clean Asmara is. I am told, they did not see any single dirt. And yet, Eritrea is only 21 Years into their Independence.

One thing that stood out for the Youths was the resolve by the Public Officers to do their work. They make it so easy for the general populace to fall in place and maintain Law and Order.

I bet we must do something in Kenya.

I am happy to report that The Clean Kenya Campaign has taken root and the Government Agencies concerned are working with us to ensure that as we celebrate 50 Years into our Independence next year, a Clean Kenya shall have been achieved.

This is a deliberate deliverable initiative and on the 28th August 2012, we will be hosting The 2nd Consultative Forum on Waste Management at the KICC where we will look at Practical Steps that we must make in the Process of Separation of Waste at Source. A Strategic Planning Session for this will be hosted on the 31st July and all those whom have been invited are very key to the success of this Campaign.

A Clean Kenya at 50 is very possible. Eritrea has achieved it. Rwanda has achieved it. Why can we not achieve the same?

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC
Tel; 0724 365 557