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Added: 2006-06-20 12:37
Modified: 2006-10-02 13:50
Refreshed: 2010-02-08 05:17
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IDRC Photo: David Elsworth
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The Kangemi Youth Centre is a community school in a slum area of West Nairobi. In a project initiated and funded by KWENCH (Kenya water, energy, cleanliness and health project), children are given practical lessons on tree planting and conservation — while they help to preserve the local environment. The trees the children plant will help level out the ground. In addition, the “gabions” (constructed using earth-filled recycled sacks and planted with Kikuyu grass) will help secure the unstable slope and control the rainwater run-off. That run-off regularly floods the lower classrooms (seen on the right) during the rainy seasons. A naturally occurring spring, which emerges in the school grounds and had previously not been used, has been tested for quality and capped. It now provides the school with a safe water supply, while in the future surplus water from the spring may be sold to the community to help with school funding. The local community also provides labour for this project.
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