During the month, CWC awarded 5 beneficiaries of the secondary school bursary from the 2023 KCPE candidates. 3 are from the LUMO Community and 2 of them are from the Samburu community. The three winners from LUMO represented three ranches, Lualenyi, Mramba, and Oza. These students obtained 392, 382, and 348 marks, securing chances to join Kenyatta High School, Chogoria Girls High School, and Dr. Aggrey High School consecutively.
Together with Soroi Larsens Camp and Soroi Samburu Lodge, CWC launched for the first time a secondary school scholarship in Samburu. The sponsorship involved 10 schools in Archer’s post and fully covers the tuition fees, from form 1 to form 4, of the top student from the zone. For the 2023 KCPE, the top student scored 387 marks and was from Lorubae Primary School who got admitted to Meru School. In addition to the organization paying the tuition fees, it went the extra mile of helping the parents do the student’s school shopping by catering 75% of the shopping budget, something out of the sponsorship provision.
Also, CWC sponsored a girl who was second in the region, as the girl’s family could not raise funds for her education. The girl scored 382 marks, from the Waso Muslim primary and got a chance to join Chogoria Girls’ High School.
CWC does follow up with their sponsorship beneficiaries, to check out on their way of conduct while in school.
We supported the school with the term food ration including rice, beans, porridge flour, cooking oil, sugar, and salt. We also gave out a stationery package for each of the students, courtesy of guests visiting Soroi Lions Bluff Lodge. CWC also continues to support the payment of one of the school’s teachers as well as the cook.
January marked a very significant step for our “Plastics for Books” project. From the last years 470 kg of plastics collected from the individual schools last year, we were able to distribute 65 copies of textbooks to 9 schools including Kongoni Primary, Maktau Primary, Msorongo Primary, Mnengwa Primary, Godoma Primary, Mwashuma Primary, Mlughi Primary, Mwashoti Primary and Nyolo Primary.
CWC supports and engages youth groups as ambassadors of wildlife conservation and environmental conservation to other youths and the community. Among the youth groups, is Exotica Football Club, whom CWC has supported with soccer kits and plans to continue engaging them in various conservation and environmental activities. Also, CWC looks forward to partnering with these youth groups in all environmental activities the organisation plans to conduct for the community.
On Saturday, 10th February, 2024, we conducted the clean-up at archers’ post town, as well as launching the Plastics for Books project. 4 primary schools and 3 secondary schools each being represented by 10 students and 2 teachers.
Each of them got a certificate of participation and a general one for the school. Also, two youth groups participated, Exotica FC and Transform Samburu Affirmative Project, each group getting a certificate, and the latter group getting a t-shirt and a roll-up banner.
Local leaders, including the area chief, the ward administrator and the village administrator, all vouched to continue with community sensitization on plastic and waste management at Archers Post township. The proceeds will then be used to buy textbooks for the students, football kits for the soccer team and supportive items for the Samburu Affirmative group. A total of 229 kgs of plastics were collected.
In addition to the financial support we offer towards our beneficiaries, we do follow up on their academics and their way of conduct while studying. In February, we visited some of our college sponsorship students at Samburu Vocational and Training College. We got the opportunity to interact with students while at their practical lesson and meet the college administrator to discuss their academics and discipline. They have done their end-of-module one exams and they will proceed with their industrial practice in May 2024 in our lodge partners at Soroi collection.
The college principal expressed interest in the college being involved in the environmental activities we do in the region. She also mentioned going forward, our sponsorship should consider young gentlemen, who are done with Form 4 and mostly end up engaging in cattle rustling and other unethical activities. This also creates a social imbalance as most organizations are empowering girls leaving out young men
The clinic was conducted at Godoma Primary and Msorongo Primary on 12th & 13th, and 14th & 15th of March 2024 respectively. This was in partnership with the Olmalaika Trust, who were the main organizers, while Soroi Collection, Lions Bluff Lodge, LUMO Community Wildlife Conservancy, Mama Project and Taita Taveta department of health also took part.
Services provided included oral health education to the primary school pupils of Msorongo primary and Godoma primary. Also, for the community members, the clinic provided general medical and dental care, which included; x rays, extractions, fillings, and root canal and consultation.
The trust came along with a team of 21, where 3 provided the oral health education, 9 on the dental services and 10 providing the medical services. Also, present were the Maktau Public Health Officer, Community Health Volunteer and LUMO Conservancy rangers, who came in handy to translate between the clients and the health providers. The total number of clients attended to were 364, which includes 210 medical clients and 154 dental clients including the 88 extractions, 23 X-Rays, 32 Fillings and 31 Cleaning).
So far, the ladies involved in the project met to make the Tumaini Necklaces. The project aims in helping mostly single ladies, in raising fees for their kids who are all in primary school. Also, the project creates a market for the offcuts of the local tsavorite stone, thus supporting their livelihoods.
We distributed 25 eco-friendly bottles to every ranger at LUMO Community Wildlife Conservancy, a donation from Kampur Travel Diaries. The bottles are doubled – walled vacuum insulated, to ensure maintenance of temperature of their drinks whether under the hot sun during the day, or during cold night as they do their patrols.
Also, supported the Kenya Wildlife Service – Maktau Branch with snacks to support pre-ceding activities to World Wildlife Day – 3rd March. Led by the Tsavo Southern Sector Warden, Mr.Kavi, the Maktau KWS team and the community members, desilted a community water pan, which when holds rain water, will reduce the pressure livestock put in the water pans in the conservancy and the park, thus holding more water for the
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