- Ndhiwa-Kenya
- +254704345142
- info@scorecbo.org
First, Kenya is one of the least-forested countries in Africa, with only 7% tree cover. For Homabay, the forest cover still stands at 2.6%, low than Turkana (7%) and national target of 10%. Forest loss has led to reduced biodiversity, droughts, flash floods, crop failures, and more. All of these are exacerbated by climate change due dangerous human activities.
Second, trees provide life, food and general shelter to humans and animals. Not planting and general cutting forest trees makes us both vulnerable, risky and socioeconomically malnourished.
Although there are some forest management systems and forests in place, a lot still needs to be done in terms promotion, protection, conservation and restoration. As a result, we have embarked on a project dubbed “School Enterprise Led Facility (SELF). The main goal of the project is to green our school through an income-generating enterprise for enhanced management.
We works with community partners across Homabay to plant trees and restore degraded lands. What’s more, we aim to increase tree cover in schools, churches and communities across the Homabay County in a way that is useful to local communities, giving them the means to improve their lives and prosper.
The organization was established in 2011 in Homa Bay County as an empowerment program themed “Supporting Primary Education among Kenyans- SPEAK” by five widows who were victims and survivors of gender based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV.
The organization was established in 2011 as an empowerment program themed “Supporting Primary Education among Kenyans- SPEAK” by five widows who were victims and survivors of gender based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV
