Eco-Ethics International Union: Reports

It all about World Cup and it is all about fun! The situation on ever growing shanties and slums in Nairobi is worsening, as financial crunch is picking up well to be a good vocabulary in every state department. Free education has not been able to bear fruits, and the Institute for African Ecology and Philosophy's past proposal on community policing are losing relevancy, as poverty is rising. From the Wikipedia, we are told that the World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 World Cup held in Germany. The current World Cup is being held in South Africa, between 11 June and 11 July 2010, and the 2014 World Cup will be held in Brazil. Note that the championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II. It is therefore an event that unites different people, of different backgrounds and abilities, into a focused celebration, understanding and life sharing moments, including eco ethics.

For this reason, Project Nabuur Stiftung, through its life sponsor, the Leah Foundation, has been donating footballs to local communities where informal settlements are the case. The board identified Kayole, Huruma, Mathare, Korokocho, Babadogo and Kibera as the priority areas. Thus, fifty balls to be given in a shared pattern with hopes that after the World Cup TV broadcasting, we shall be able to organize our Eco Ethics Festival, with sports as the uniting element around the different themes as being planned by the creative directors. Ghetto Radio is involved in the same quest as we are, but they are more technical, they have decided to follow up our football donation with live broadcasting of the event. They will provide twelve projectors for the six shanties while the local youth will organize themselves into security teams for the sake of protecting the equipments from theft or subsequent damages. Once again, we thank our membership at EEIU East Africa for their ideas during our 1st Kor Bondo Lecture in Maranda, from where this generous outreach has summed. We look forward to more involvement as we welcome the Africa Partners in Safari in our launch of our MoU for the coming year.

Debating Global Terrorism: a short film by Boaz Adhengo

This film has been made within a case study of the East African region in comparison to the international conferences within Africa that attempt to address the delicate issue of terrorism, based on a published book under the same title. It attempts to outline the global perceptions on what terrorism entails, to the greatest extent on what these mind sets impact to development agendas as strategised by state authorities. As much as the book gives little recommendation on what is to be done on specific issue areas, it has outlined on the common experiences that Africa, as a continent has recorded within its four hot zones of East, West, North and South. From Blood Diamonds to Somali Pirates, this short film debates ethically on what went wrong, what is still biased and what ethics need be involved for effective result in our own intelligence planning. It is a must watch for students of International Relations and for those involved in Security Studies. The book was written with view that anyone cares for his environment and everyone enjoys his own definition of sovereignty.

Report for May, 2010

Christopher Tood Beer of Indiana University's department of sociology had a short interview with EEIU Nabuur, where he was investigating "The Influence of Transnational Actors on Kenyan Environmental NGOs". The questions were tough, deeply reflective and went way back to five years when we were starting our ecological operations, the process of garbage collection etc. Of greater interest was his wanting to know how we design our thematic strategy of operation, how we get issues to tackle and how we recruit our volunteers. This process of questions lasted for two hours and it was lively. Our group is one of the 130 organizations he selected and they are planning to access other EEIU chapters as well. Chritopher Todd is a Ph.D student in environmental sociology.

Project Nabuur Visits Mwatate, the Taita Hills

On the 7th of May, the EEIU East Africa Team left Maranda location, after a successful meeting on conservation and biodiversity. We were heading towards the Taita hills, a myriad of about one thousand hills that have been turned into habitation by the Taita community, dating way back. The landscape was amusing, breath taking and we felt like we were in a foreign land, yet it was all Kenya.

It was either you have a four wheel drive vehicles or you get stuck, though our van heated on our way up the slope, we still managed to get water and progress with the remainder of the kilometers.

Taita hills falls within the Wundanyi Constituency, with a great coverage of Mwatate District. Most houses are permanent, yet they are on top of the hill...no one really knows how the building materials get up there. The farming practice is basically subsistence, as no food products were being sold. We only saw huge tracks ferrying logs, driving up the slope and fetching large chunks of chopped trees. It is timber business, so they say. Though, our radioecology team also identified Tiomin, a mineral within the soil that could be mined and made use of productively.

My great appreciation was the polite nature of the community, so welcoming, and almost ready for civilization. They accorded us the hospitality we never expected and we promised to bring in development through constant research. Already on the ground, there is a Swedish team doing something about the soil.

An investigative excursion to Kitengela Glass, on the Issue of Creative Economy

The bottles are collected.

The bottles are then sorted

Blowing the glass

The finished product

EEIU Nabuur Chair Visits Kitengela Glass

Participation at a Climate Change Conference

On the 19th May, 2010, Mr. Boaz Adhengo presented a poster to a conference at the Multi-Media University of Kenya. The conference theme was "Climate Change and Natural Resource Use in Eastern Africa: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation", 3rd Scientific Conference of the Ecological Society for Eastern Africa in conjunction with the Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance. The conference took place from the 19th to the 22nd and bringing together key stakeholders in the environmental philosophy of East Africa. Though the major defining strategy was to discuss climate change within its multiple realms, there is also avenues for analyzing energy and the business dilemmas that steer development in ways that are not sustainable. In fact, the poster draws from a paper he presented in 2009, "Ethical Implications of Ecotourism on Sustainable Development", well put at a glance, with arrows that draw the participant in understanding the patriotic role that we as humans must adhere to, for we are citizens of the world, and climate change has no borders. Destruction looks for no visas, for it is interdependent, interconnected and cross cutting. We must work as a team as much as we preserve our aesthetics. Although we couldn't take photos during the session, the enjoyed representing African Americans Environmental Association and Eco Ethics International Union, and endeavor that defines our ecological concepts. It is with high anticipation that the Radioecology Conference that is being planned in Nairobi, will steer global involvement, as they all add up to our conservation. To see the poster click on this link.

Report for February 2010

'On Campus Group at USIU on a tree planting excursion!'

Report for January 2010

The 1st Kor Bondo Lecture - Maranda County Club, May 6th 2010

"LAND AND CONSERVATION ISSUES IN THE MARA AREA"!

In conjunction with the Maranda County Club, the first Kor Bondo Lecture will be given on Thursday 6th May 2010. It will be addressing the Mara land issue and provide a historical analysis of the distribution of land vis a vis conservation and its contribution to the current status.

Booking

All members of the EEIU, their partners and guests are welcome to attend the Kor Bondo lectures.

EEIU members who are also members of the Project Nabuur Stiftung should sign up as usual through the PNS.
Those who are not members of the PNS should sign up through the its EEIU Chapter , by contacting the Membership Secretary, Jahwar Amber, either by email or by Telephone 3874145.
Numbers are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Dress Code

The dress code for dinner lectures at the Maranda County Club is "smart casual". Gentlemen are requested to wear jacket and ties and ladies to dress appropriately.

Venue and Programme

The dinner lecture will be held in the upstairs Lodge

Time:

6.30 p.m. Welcoming glass of wine, and cash bar
7.00 p.m. Lecture starts
8.15 p.m. Dinner

Payments for EEIU members

The charge for the dinner lecture is Ksh. 1,800/= per person which includes a welcoming glass of wine, the lecture, three course dinner and coffee. EEIU members who book through the Chapter should pay on arrival at the Maranda County Club and buy their vouchers for drinks.

Jahwar will give you full details on payments when confirming your bookings, and will also arrange your table seating

This page was last updated on 22 June 2010.


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