Engaging UK and Kenyan youth with their environment

NAKURU ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION TRUST

(In partnership with Mbaruk Field Studies Centre, Nakuru, Kenya)

	OBJECTIVES Environmental education of Children and young people below the age of 24 within Kenya and the UK. Cultural exchange by assisting in the provision of youth exchange visits Reducing environmental footprint and promoting environmental justice.			Mburuk Field Studies Centre in Kenya’s Rift Valley works with community groups, food security programmes, water harvesting, social enterprise, bee keeping, tree planting and environmental education. NECT works in partnership with Mbaruk Field Studies Centre.
		Mbaruk Field Studies Centre nursery
	NECT ACTIVITIES: 2005: 16 UK young people from Brixton visited Kenya including a work camp in Mbaruk. They participated in building a community house and painted school classrooms. 2006: Two storytellers from Cambridge exchanged Irish and Japanese stories with stories from members of the local community. 2007: Four students from Anglian Ruskin University stayed in Mbaruk on a work camp. A Churchill Fellow included Mbaruk on his fact-finding trip to East and Southern Africa. 2008: Two students representing SIFE Cambridge (Students In Free Enterprise) visited Mbaruk with SIFE Nairobi to support a co-op of 24 local young entrepreneurs.		CURRENT NECT PROJECT: Goat breeding project: raising funds to provide a pair of breeding goats and goat breeding station in Mbaruk. The project aims to improve the quality and production of goats’ milk and cheese in the area for local consumption and export. NECT in partnership with SIFE Cambridge is working to explore opportunities for the sale of goat products in the UK.
NAKURU ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION TRUST 34 Cannon Lane, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 1HL Tel: 020 8429 8077 E-mail: nectecology@yahoo.co.uk Website: www.nectuk.org BRITISH REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 1110361