Dear Friends,
In this quarter, we were thrilled to join the Munje ladies for a mangrove tree planting day on the 10th May. We brought with us over 30 students from the all-girls college we visit weekly to conduct conservation workshops. We were able to plant over 60 mangrove seedlings during our visit!
In addition to the mangrove tree planting, the students were given a small project, to collect samples to take back to show the younger students. Through a recent partnership, we acquired 100 foldscopes, a budget friendly Do-It-Yourself microscope, which we used in workshops after the planting to compare samples collected. This whole activity was a great fun, as well as conservation centred and educational!
In June, we held our FOURTH Sea Turtle Festival, this was a huge success, this time receiving recognition on local TV, you can watch by clicking the link below. The ladies joined us to showcase their products and project, this was held on the 18th June and we will share a report and photos in the next report!
Thank you for your continued support!
Until next time,
The CES Team
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Dear Friend,
Firstly, we wish you a very happy and productive 2023! Our 2023 so far has been busy with several international school programmes, conservation festivals and cultural events!
Most importantly we were able to meet up with the mangrove women’s group and hand over the donations we had raised on their behalf from kind people like you! They were thrilled to receive more funding to put towards their mangrove planting activities. We also were able to fund their participation, along with other community groups, at the Diani Regatta, an annual cultural festival held in Kenya. They were provided space to showcase their products and to speak about their work restoring mangrove forests.
The mangrove women’s group continue to thrive and our team are incredibly impressed by their dedication and passion. We will continue supporting their amazing work and we are proud to take this journey with them. We ask that you also continue supporting them by donating whenever you can. Mangrove forests are highly important for both the environment and people, it is important that we continue to support grassroots projects such as this, as without them such ecosystems would be susceptible to development and other damaging activities.
This year we plan to further support the group through alternative livelihood business opportunities and business training. We will continue to run multiple education programmes over the coming months through our partnership with Camps International. This will mean more funding to support our work with local school groups and community groups such as the mangrove women.
To keep updated with what we have been up to in the last couple of months, please check out our newsletters by visiting our website (link below).
Thank you for taking this journey with us.
Yours sincerely,
The CES Team
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Hello mangrove lovers!
We are happy to report we have had a busy few months engaging students and communities in conservation activities. You may have also received a certificate of appreciation from us for your very generous donation towards mangrove restoration. We provide everyone who donated towards the planting of new mangroves a certificate, so you can see how you contributed towards this vital project! If you did not receive this, please let us know!
Here's a breakdown of what we have been up to in the last quarter;
We are planning a visit to our wonderful mangrove partners in January to deliver the next donation. Once we have done this we will be able to report back on how they used the funds to further mangove conservation.
Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Thank you from all of us at Conservation Education Society!
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Hi Friends!
We are excited to announce the launch of the ‘Women saving mangroves in Kenya!’ campaign has so far been a huge success, so far raising over $400 via the GlobalGiving!
At the end of March, we visited the Munje Tunusuru Conservation Women’s group to deliver over 500 empty milk cartons, which in turn will be used to pot mangrove seedlings. We also signed an MoU between ourselves and the group to formalise this new partnership! We are excited to be supporting these fantastic women in their fight to save mangroves.
In June, we held our 3rd annual Sea Turtle Festival and were able to fund for the women to join us on the day, providing them with a stall to showcase their work and products! Furthermore, we were able to hand over our first donation in support of their work at the festival. If was great to see them engage with schools, other NGO’s and residents and we hope through these interactions we can help increase both awareness of their work and the funding they receive, you can keep updated with the festival by following us on @DianiSeaTurtleFestival.
In other news, we have been gearing up to our international summer programme, which will start in a few weeks, this entails a 1-day education programme on marine life with several groups visiting form the UK. In May and June, we also ran programmes for a Dubai student group and international schools visiting from Nairobi. This was through our partners Camps International and Outdoor Infinity.
A newsletter for this period as well as a Sea Turtle Festival newsletter will be available in July, but in the mean time you can check out our last newsletter by clicking HERE!
We want to say a special thank you for contributing to the ‘Women saving mangroves in Kenya!’ project, this is an going programme and any support you can give will go a long way in helping these women restore, preserve and protect vital mangroves in Kenya!
Until next time!
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