Ecofinder Kenya partners with Sandwatch
Environmental Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Communities
Ecofinder Kenya is a non-governmental organization which works towards empowering grass root communities through holistic approaches in order to make them realize their potential and attain local sustainable development and environmental conservation. Our work involves capacity and skill building of community members towards the development of green enterprises and alternative livelihood sources so as to reduce pressures of over utilization of natural resources and encroachment into natural ecosystems like the wetlands. We encourage and support the use of biogas for cooking and compost manure for farming from ecological sanitation toilets and hybrid feed biogas digesters. We also work with community members in promoting green energy by distributing solar lamps and efficient cook stoves. To conserve the Lake Victoria wetlands using Sandwatch methods and protect the resource base of the livelihoods of the people in these wetland villages, we are also working towards conservation of the wetlands.
Our work on this involves restoration of the degraded parts of the wetlands through either active or passive regeneration, we are building alliances and mobilizing stakeholders to come together in the protection of the wetland from continued destruction, we are enabling alterative livelihoods innovation in the communities through Sustainable Green Enterprise development. As part of encouraging grass root environmental leadership in the communities, we establish Village Environmental Committees who are charged with manning the wetland restoration activities so as to replenish the wetland resources which are a source of livelihood to a large percentage of the communities along the Lake Victoria region.
Ecofinder Kenya is a non-governmental organization which works towards empowering grass root communities through holistic approaches in order to make them realize their potential and attain local sustainable development and environmental conservation. Our work involves capacity and skill building of community members towards the development of green enterprises and alternative livelihood sources so as to reduce pressures of over utilization of natural resources and encroachment into natural ecosystems like the wetlands. We encourage and support the use of biogas for cooking and compost manure for farming from ecological sanitation toilets and hybrid feed biogas digesters. We also work with community members in promoting green energy by distributing solar lamps and efficient cook stoves. To conserve the Lake Victoria wetlands using Sandwatch methods and protect the resource base of the livelihoods of the people in these wetland villages, we are also working towards conservation of the wetlands.
Our work on this involves restoration of the degraded parts of the wetlands through either active or passive regeneration, we are building alliances and mobilizing stakeholders to come together in the protection of the wetland from continued destruction, we are enabling alterative livelihoods innovation in the communities through Sustainable Green Enterprise development. As part of encouraging grass root environmental leadership in the communities, we establish Village Environmental Committees who are charged with manning the wetland restoration activities so as to replenish the wetland resources which are a source of livelihood to a large percentage of the communities along the Lake Victoria region.
