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Chair: Okeyo Benards
Address:
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa
C/O Okeyo Benards
Off Sauti ya Kenya Road-Ganjoni
PO Box 1462
GPO-Mombasa
KENYA
Email: okeyob@yahoo.com
Official Date of Formation: June 2000
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa Reports
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa Letters
Vision for the NGO sector
EEIU Brochure: Kiswahili translation
Funding for Kenya (Sare) Chapter
Downloads
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa 2006 Annual Report (PDF, 788KB)
EEIU Mombasa 2005 Annual Report (Word document, 1.4MB)
EEIU Mombasa Announces Preparations for Hosting June 8th World Ocean Day (Word document, 28KB)
EEIU Mombasa 2003-2004 Report Part 1 (PDF, 400K)
EEIU Mombasa 2003-2004 Report Part 2 (PDF, 1.8M)
First Quarter Report: 28 May 2004 (Word, 124K)
Capacity Building Seminar Agenda: 7 & 8 May 2004 (Word, 36K)
Brochure: EEIU Kenya: Pride in harmonising nature-humanity relationships (PDF, 36K)
Brochure: Establishment of 'Eco Clubs' in schools (PDF, 44K)
Chapter Workshop, Diani, Mombasa, December 2002 (Word, 38K)
Mission Statement
Our Mission
To investigate, demonstrate, promote, and enhance harmonious relationships between human communities and their natural or environmental resources, building on the principle of sustainability.
Our Vision
To have a world of human communities that value and are adequately informed about their actions to the natural environments.
Long-term Goal
Having human communities that are responsive to new research findings and willing to adapt to alternative livelihoods for the sustenance of the world's coasts and environmental resources.
Implementation of Mission and Long-term Goal
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa's mission and long-term goal will be implemented in Kenya, and in Africa, through participation in EEIU-African Summit and in collaboration with other institutions through community initiatives, public-private partnerships and linkages that promote and invest in awareness creation, interdisciplinary research, experimentation, socio-economic programmes, education and information exchange on possible livelihood alternatives by which communities can achieve environmental, socio-economic sustainability.
Vision for the NGO sector
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To be delivered by Okeyo Benards both as an oral and written memorandum to the Formulation of an NGO Sector National Policy at the Provincial Consultations on NGOs Sector Policy — May 21st and 22nd, 2002 in Coast Province, Mombasa Municipal Hall, Mombasa, Kenya
EEIU Brochure — Kiswahili translation
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The idea to have the EEIU brochure translated to Kiswahili language has been found to be paramount by EEIU Kenya/Mombasa. Kiswahili is the main language in the East and Central Africa region. In Kenya, where this work has been done, the local chapter endeavors to reach as many people as possible, and specifically the young and the youthful generations. The majority cannot understand English but even if they cannot read and write they can easily understand Kiswahili.
To qualify the purpose of this union the local chapter recognized the need to be able to first of all communicate to the target people. Thus, the idea to translate the original Prof. Otto Kinne text. The success of any environmental management activity will only depend on how the local community and other stakeholders can understand the approaches being used and appreciate the activities of the intervening organizations.
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa has focused on its harvest for this noble task at the local national, and regional level and have found the translation of the concepts and theses of EEIU as a paramount task. We are one world and we are living in a global village.
This daunting task could not have been realized without the assistance and co-operation of many of our members. Charles Lugo, EEIU Kenya/Mombasa's social anthropologist, spent most of January 2002 looking for the right words and is indebted for coming up with the first uncorrected Kiswahili version. Mr. Wafula, a lecturer of Kiswahili at Egerton University's languages department gave it a final professional outlook and correction. For all the other times, Okeyo Benards (EEIU Kenya/Mombasa Chair) gave all the moral and financial support to ensure that the work was completed as quickly as possible. We appreciate immensely the financial support from Lighthouse Foundation, Hamburg, Germany who remain as our main sponsors. We are also grateful to Miss Pili Caroline Baya, EEIU Kenya/Mombasa office operations manager for the final editing of this work. Last but not least the efforts of all our office neighbors who always gave us more than five Kiswahili words for every single English word that we sort its translation.
EEIU Kenya/Mombasa Chapter
Okeyo Benards, B.Sc., M.Sc., Chapter Chair
Charles Lugo, B.Sc., M.Sc, Social Anthropologist
Financial support for the EEIU Kenya (Mombasa/Sare) Chapter
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In a contract signed October 2001 in Hamburg, the Lighthouse Foundation (Hamburg, Germany) and the EEIU Kenya Chapter (Mombasa/Sare, Kenya) agreed that the Lighthouse Foundation (LF) supports the Kenya Chapter financially. The LF provides Euro 51.130,00 in support of the project:
"Examination of the fishing traditions, taboos and culture used by local fishermen in the exploitation of the coastal areas."
As pointed out in a letter by the EEIU President (below) this support will greatly help to get the Kenya/Mombasa/Sare Chapter started and to spread the word.
 This page was last updated on 29 December 2006.
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