AYICC KENYA

‘‘ Humanity should at its very least take care of its own’’ In a bid to give back to the community AYICC-K through its Reach Out Programme (ROP), a programme which was to identify a children’s home in need. And Watoto Wema children’ home was subsequently selected. On Sunday 15 th 2010, a group of AYICC-K member made the inaugural visit to Watoto Wema children’s home. Through the members’ contributions collected each Wednesday during our meeting over 8,000Kshs was collected. With this we managed to budget for the kids to supplement the little that they had. We took with us the following: ü Maize ü Wimbi for porridge ü Beans ü Cooking oil ü Wheat flour ü Rice and ü Sugar. Our visit to the home coincided with a farewell party which was organized for three ladies from Germany who had volunteered their time and energy in teaching the children for the last three months. As such, there were so many performances ranging from the dances, modeling to playing football. It was also grea

REPORT ON THE AGRA CO-SPONSORED DIALOGUE ON, MOVING TOWARD AN AFRICAN GREEN REVOLUTION: A DILAOGUE ON COLLABORATING WITH THE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS HELD FROM 15 th – 16 th July, 2010 AT THE WINSOR GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, NAIROBI, KENYA. INTRODUCTION “The biggest contribution to climate change in Africa is agriculture due to the fact that we are cutting down forests for more agricultural land.” Namanga Ngongi , president AGRA. The two day dialogue was to try and enhance the working out of the legalities on how civil societies could work best with AGRA. Africa continues to face significant food security challenges, despite the progress made by African governments to increase national agricultural budgets. To achieve national and regional food security, it is critical that agricultural productivity be increased and that the pace of change is accelerated. An integrated approach towards this increase in agricultural productivity must involve those civil society organizations (CSOs)

AYICC KENYA AT THE 13th WORLD SCOUT MOOT 2010 After many months of preparation, the 13th World Scout Moot officially kicked off in Nairobi, at Rowallan Scout Camp from the 28th of July 2010. A colorful ceremony that was graced by the President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Mwai Kibaki, signaled the beginning of the 10-day long event.Starting 2nd August, the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change- Kenya (AYICC Kenya) set up camp at Rowallan, the Scouts Regional Bureau. Based at the (Global Development Village) area where we ran a workshop until the 5th of August. It was the most interesting workshop. Our workshop aimed at achieving the GDV education objective of Environmental Conservation and Management. It was exciting as moot participants trickled into our tent which was among the most interesting and colorful at the GDV village. On exhibit was a Forest cover model and indigenous tree species courtesy of Kenya Forest Service, Copies of the National Climate Response Strategy, Cop

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