BOTSWANA
Gaborone
The National Conservation Strategy Agency in Gaborone is organizing
the national World Environment Day celebrations in Botswana. The event
will take place at Letlhakeng Village, and will include a speech by
a guest of honour, exhibitions by environmental organisations and performances
by various artists. In addition, the Agency is organizing essay and
art contests in schools throughout the country, as well as an Environmental
Fair in the capital city. The commemoration is hosted by a different
sub-district every year and helps to raise awareness among the people.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Kwashirai Chigodora
National Conservation Strategy Agency
Private Bag 0068
Gaborone
Botswana
Tel: (267) 3902050
Fax (267) 3902051.
E-mail: kchigodora@gov.bw
Website: http://www.envirobotswana.bw
CAMEROON
Buea
The Municipal and
Community Development Forum (MUCODEF) in Cameroon will rally schools
and colleges to create Environmental Student Clubs to actively participate
during the day. Participants will take part in a colourful march on
the main street of the City holding posters that carry various environmental
slogans. This in an effort to challenge the local community to take
environmental safety, protection and restoration measures.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Raphael Muma
Municipal & Community Development Forum (MUCODEF)
c/o Ignatius Asah, PMB 08
Buea
Cameroon
Tel: (237) 723 01 05
E-mail: raphmu_6991@yahoo.com
ETHIOPIA
Arba Minch
On the occasion of WED, the Rift Valley Environment Society will hold a workshop and a seminar. Documentation concerning the flora and fauna of the surroundings will be presented.
For more information,
please contact:
Dr. Reji Divakaran Nair
Asst. Professor, Arba Minch University
Rift Valley Environment Society
P.O, Box No. 21
Arba Minch
Ethiopia
E-mail: rejidnair2000@yahoo.com
Lalibela
On the occasion of WED this year,
the Save Your Holy Land organization comprising young university graduates in Lalibela
- a rural area of Ethiopia - is organizing in their village reforestation, sanitation,
heritage preservation and environmental education programmes.
For more information,
please contact:
Tewodros Alemu
Save Your Holy Land
Kebele 02
P. O. Box 70
Lalibela
Ethiopia
Tel: 251-3-360065
Fax: 251-3-360153
E-mail: syhlal@ethionet.et
KENYA
Kisumu
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
of Kenya has chosen Kisumu as the national venue for this year's World Environment Day. Several activities
are planned, including clean-up exercises, which have already started and in which the CBO are involved;
a tree planting excercise, a clean up of Jua Kali waste, sports activities, a procession and a Baraza in
Kisumu town. Permanent litter bins will placed in strategic areas.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Otieno Maurice Nyunja
NEMA-Kisumu
P.O. Box 1337-40100
Kisumu
Kenya
Tel: (254) 73340133
Fax: (254) 572020393
E-mail: nyunja@yahoo.com
Nairobi
In Kenya the UNEP Regional Office for Africa, will, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources organize/co-ordinate activities involving youth groups, school children, environmental groups, and the general public throughout the country. The main national event will be held in Kisumu on Saturday 4 June 2005 with tree planting, clean up and sport activities. Other activities planned include:
- Essay, Art and Photographic competition among school children throughout the country based on the theme for this year. The participants are expected to write essays, draw or paint any environmental violations in their environment or within their communities while photos depicting similar situations will be entered in the contest. Winners will be announced during a special ceremony during on the Environment week 2005.
- "Greening Nairobi: A Community Responds" an exhibition at the National Museums of Kenya from 31 May - 4 June 2005, with a focus on community response to urban environmental issues through activities such as recycling and promotion of renewable energy.
- The Private Sector is very keen to mark WED 2005 with a difference. This day will mark the unveiling of their integrated plan to support Nairobi River Basin Programme. Activities will focus on Nairobi, "The green City in the sun". There will be tree planting through schools, clean-up in the informal settlements, display of cleaner production where possible in the industries, production of a documentary on the Nairobi River Basin. Also there will be discussions of long-term measures beyond June 5th.
For more information,
please contact:
Ms. Angele Luh
Information Officer
UNEP Regional Office for Africa
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: (254 -20) 624283/624292
Fax: (254 -20) 623928
E-mail: angele.luh@unep.org
Nairobi
Juhudi Children's Club are pleased to run for the
third year running the Boogie Ride, an annual children’s train trip to Naivasha. This annual trip has been
scheduled over three years to coincide with the celebrations for the World Environment Day. Last year Juhudi
Children's Club planted trees at the Naivasha Railway Station with more than 900 schools participating.
The event received extensive coverage from Standard Newspapers, Kenya Television Network,
Metro-TV and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.
This year they will support the theme "Green Cities" through their planned activities,
and use the avenue to encourage children and youth in Nairobi to take up the mantle of
conserving their urban habitation by greening it....so as to mop up and absorb the excess
Carbon Dioxide Beijing produced and emitted by our industries and motor vehicles. They will
make stops and plant trees in the major urban centers along the route, i.e. Nairobi, Kikuyu,
Limuru and Naivasha and provide every participating school with seedlings to plant in
their school compounds. A fashion show, usually done on the train will
be modeled around this theme.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. David Kimani
Juhudi Children’s Club
P.O. Box 2665, 00100
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: (254-20) 4450052, 0722-489108
E-mail: Juhudi@africaonline.co.kewebsite
Website: http://www.juhudi.org
Nairobi
World Environment Day will be celebrated in a significant way in the refugee camp of Kakuma in northern Kenya - a city of 87,000 refugees. The event will focus on the cleaning of the camp with emphasis on the reduction of plastic bags, which are flying around. The best, i.e. the cleanest block, will receive an award. In the schools, pupils from 13 years of age and onwards will write essays on how best the environment in and around the refugee camp can be kept clean. In addition tree planting activities will be intensified and perhaps a photo exhibition will be initiated.
For more information,
please contact:
Ms. Juliane Friedrich
GTZ (German Technical Cooperation)
PO BOX 17
Nairobi 00621
Kenya
Tel: (254 20) 4182 009
Fax: (254 20) 4182 010
E-mail: Juliane.Friedrich@gtz.de
Nairobi
The Nairobi
Chapter of Eco Ethics International Union will take their advocacy to
a growing rural agricultural town in Western Kenya. They will hold seminars
and a conference with the Kisii Chamber of Commerce, the Local Authority,
Government Officers and local leaders on the need for a planned and
healthy urban environment. They will also hold a special youth training
workshop. These activities will be carried out in partnership with various
arms of the government, including the National Environment Management
Authority (NEMA), planners and local stakeholders. They will do a clean
up and restoration of the town landscape and erect special billboards
to educate the community, and address the need for proper waste management
and recycling in the community.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Arege Douglas Mogeni
Eco Ethics International Union - Nairobi Chapter
P. O. Box 55455
00200 City Square
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: 254 720 466 340
E-mail: dagie124@yahoo.com
Nairobi
The organization Green Alive in
Nairobi is planning two events to commemorate WED this year. For the past two years,
they have been working at Jeevanjee Gardens, in partnership with the Friends of Jeevanjee
Gardens (ForJ), where they have labeled the trees at the Garden to benefitial visitors.
During this year's WED, they are planning to label more trees at the Gardens. Other planned
activities will be to create awareness on the importance of such open green spaces in cities
and put up litter bins in the the Gardens as a way of ensuring it remains clean.
They are also proposing to add another open space in Nairobi by requesting the
City Council of Nairobi (CCN) to allow them to plant at least 2,000 indigenous
tree seedlings at the Globe Cinema Roundabout, which to date stands as a land
mark for being the biggest roundabout in East and Central Africa.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Osborne Odongo
Green Alive
P.O. Bo x 40585,00100
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: + 254 020 214 820 or Cell: +257 722 311 506
Fax: + 254 020 223 730
E-mail: green_alive@hotmail.com
Nairobi
On the occasion of WED, Magoso
school children and staff will undertake a clean up of Kibera-Mashimoni and there after
plant trees on the school compound and the chief's camp. In addition, in the afternoon
a workshop for Kibera women, youth and traders will be organized on the proper disposal
of waste at the school.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Zablon Wagalla
Magoso
P. O. Box 40185
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: (25-473) 5902604
E-mail: wagsayoko1234@yahoo.co.uk
Mombasa
On the occasion of WED, the
Undungu Group will involve students in a tree planting exercise. The group is also
organizing a clean up effort along the beaches on the coast of Kenya.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Victor Muliro
Undugu Group
P.O. Box 115
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: 0723939347
Fax: 020210423
E-mail: undugu@planetsave.com
MOROCCO
Alakhawayn
University
The Centre of Environmental Issues and Regional Development (CEIRD)
at Alakhawayn University is planning the following activities to commemorate
World Environment Day in 2005:
- advanced training for primary and secondary schools, environmental
leaders, and local NGO's;
- preparation and management of greening activities at local level (classrooms,
schools, neighbourhoods, districts, city);
multimedia tools (CD-ROM on local plants) including a field trip in
a green space downtown;
- a workshop for local decision makers / parents / environmental lawyers:
proposal of land management by children for a sustainable development:
the goal is to present a project on how to prepare young children for
sustainable development through early initiatives in managing a piece
of land by community of children. The idea is to convince local authorities
/ private land owners to allocate a small piece of their land up to
1% ( private or community land) , this land will be owned by children
age 6 to 18 who will be responsible for managing it through various
activities with their own ideas and initiatives with the support and
advice when necessary from a group of parents / adults;
- clean-up campaign and tree planting in city parks;
- Walking / running competition to main city park - departure from Campus
to downtown park - distance 5 KM. A WED 2005 award certificate will
be presented to the first three winners.
For
more information, please contact:
Prof. Bachir Raissouni, Ph.d
AUI Center of Environmental Issues and Regional Development (AUI CEIRD)
Alakhawayn University
B.P 1884, Ifrane 53000, Morocco
Tel 212-55-862330 212-55-862324, Fax 212-55-862300
E-mail: B.Raissouni@aui.ma
Web site: http://www.ceird.ma
Bamenda
The Global Centre
for Compliance, Hazards and Disaster Management are undertaking activities
to re-use and recycle city waste.
For more information,
please contact:
Tomukum Chia
Global Centre for Compliance, Hazards and Disaster Management
P.O. Box 110
Belo Boyo, Bamenda
Cameroon
Tel: 00237 7899370
Fax: 00237 3321116
E-mail: glocecohadoim@justice.com
NIGERIA
Anuja
Empower the Earth will
celebrate WED 2005 with a one week long programme featuring essay competitions,
a Never Litter street cleaning excercise, excursions, exhibitions of environmental
machines, vehicles, instruments, plants and other. On the day itself there will
be a seminar and a lecture on the environment, as well as an award ceremony
honuring Mallam El-Rufai as Environment Man of the Year in Nigeria for his
fight in protecting green areas.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Einstein Abasieti
Empower the Earth
Suite 028 Lozumba Complex
Area 10, Garki, Anuja
Nigeria
Tel: (234-80) 37041310
E-mail: empowertheearth@yahoo.com
Badagry
The Interact
Club of the Methodist Senior High School in Badagry, Nigeria will undertake
a clean-up of their community by providing waste paper bins.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Odunayo
Oduntan
Interact Club
Methodist Senior High School Badagry (SS2A)
Badagry
Nigeria
Tel: 08034954064
E-mail: filimontana@yahoo.com
Calabar
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2005, the Environmental
Protection and Development Initiative (EPDI) will conduct a seminar
on the theme Green Cities. they will also produce poster and
organize an essay competition as well as a rally in the University
of Calabar. They will also host a thanksgiving service at Chapel
of Redemption at the University.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Daniel Edoho
Environmental Protection and Development Initiative (EPDI)
c/o Student Affairs Unit
PMB 1115 University of Calabar
Calabar, C.R.S
Nigeria
Tel: +23408038971551
E-mail: epdi02@yahoo.com
Delta
State
The African Initiative
for Environmental Sustainable Network will be holding a school debate,
a workshop and an environmental awareness campaign on the occasion of
WED this year.
For more information,
please contact:
Princewill Emeka Mordi
African Initiative for Environmental Sustainable Network
258 Ughelli Patani Road
Alele Station Complex Ughelli
Delta State
Nigeria
Tel: 234-08023412619
E-mail: aiesn_african@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.geocoties.com/aiesn_african
Dugbe
On the occasion of WED this year, New Environment
4 World Youth is planting eucalyptus trees in front of four secondary schools in Nigeria, as well
as a quiz competition among secondary school students in Ibadan and Abeokuta on the role of
youth in environment management.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Ogunleye Oladotun
New Environment 4 World Youth
P.O. Box 37576
Dugbe
Nigeria
Tel: (234-805) 701 5780
E-mail: danewhonour@yahoo.com
Enugu State
On the occasion of WED, Ibrahim-Ahmadu Abubakar, a member of
the National Youth Service, (Mandatory National Service for Graduates
under the National Youth Service Corps Scheme of the Federal Government
of Nigeria) deployed to Enugu-East Local Government Area is organising
an Essay/Quiz Competition on the WED theme Green Cities! between Schools
of Enugu East metropolis.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Ibrahim-Ahmadu Abubakar ENS/4B/1012
c/o Mrs Nwafor
Zonal Inspector NYSC Enugu-East LGA
National Youth Service Corp
Abakaliki Road, Enugu
Enugu State, Nigeria
E-mail: ibhalilu@yahoo.com
Enugu State
The National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C) is celebrating World Environment
Day with a series of initiatives. The activities will be carried out in collaboration
with the environmental clubs that the NYSC has established in various schools with
the purpose of raising environmental awareness among children. Activities will
include beautification of neighborhoods and cleaning of dumpsites. A drama focusing
on the 2005 Green City theme will be produced and a quiz competition organized.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Kenneth Adagbor
National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C)
1 Abakiliki Road ,Enugu
Enugu State
Nigeria
Tel: 234-8044131775,01-8165205
E-mail: omatshola79@yahoo.com
Ibadan
To commemorate this year's WED,
Dohak Ventures are organizing a workshop in conjunction with the Oyo-State Government and the
Oyo State House of Assembly. The topic of the workshop is industrial environmental planning
and waste management control and it is scheduled to take place on 2 and 3 June at the conference
center of I.I.T.A. in Ibadan,Nigeria. The theme is For a cleaner environment.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Jonathan Doherty
Dohak Ventures
c/o c.i. SAjibogun & Co. Ltd.
62 Lagos Rd. Challenge
Ibadan
Nigeria
Tel: 009-234-0803-817-9110
Fax: 009-234-02-2311-311
E-mail: dohak_ade@yahoo.com
Ibadan
The Environment Magazine & Newspaper will mark World Environment Day with a media forum for stakeholders, journalists and chief executives of major companies.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Wale Akinwumi
The Environment Magazine & Newspaper
96, Old Lagos Road
Challenge
Ibadan
Nigeria
Tel: (234-80) 23387808, (234-80) 33164567
E-mail: environment@journalist.com
Kano
The Kano Green is
a group of Nigerian National Youth Service Corp members who are active
in the north of Nigeria where the greatest environmental challenge is
desertification. They carry out tree planting activities and renovation
of parks and gardens.
To mark World Environment
Day - 5 June - they plan a rally and a party in the evening of the same
day.
For more information,
please contact:
Luke Chike Igweobi
Coordinator, Kano Green
Room 4, M51H, Sch. of Health Tech. Club Road,
Kano Nigeria.
Cell:+234 8023881825
E-mail: bioserverconsult@yahoo.co.uk
Kaduna
Admiral Ecological Challenge
has the following objectives for World Environment Day:
1. Promote environmental conservation and high ethical standard in the environmental sphere.
2. Promote Admiral Environmental Care as a fore-front campaigner for conservation of the environment.
3. Removing the problem of seedling availability for tree planting programs in Nigeria.
4. Admiral eco-challenge is to serve as an exemplary project for the Northern Nigeria Government to emulate, in order to combat desertification.
In order to meet these objectives, Admiral Environmental Care will embark on an
ambitious plan of action. From 25 May 2005 they will take up an eco-challenge
programme which will create an impact in both rural and urban communities in
Nigeria and in the world as a whole. There will be an extension of the
"Education On Tree Planting" programme in the nine front line states of
Northern Nigeria. Admiral Environmental care will fund the production
of the extension posters, as well as television and radio programmes
on the serious environmental problems arising from the unchecked exploitation
of fuel wood and timber at rates beyond the levels of reforestation.
From 1June 2005, an Intensified Seedling Production programme will
start, involving selected states, local government and communities
in northern Nigeria: mainly Kastina, Sokoto, kebi, Bauchi Gusau
and Gombe. In addition to this, Admiral Environmental Care will
also encourage institutions, military and paramilitary
institutions, communities and individuals to start their
own nurseries. On 3 June 2005 Admiral will distribute
the seedlings in some selected filling stations in Nigeria
for sale. As the customer is buying fuel, he/ she is
invited to the station nursery to purchase a seedling
of choice. Records of sales will be made available to
our zonal office in Kaduna on 4 June 2005.
Finally there will be an incentive programme for outstanding performance.
In the early stages of the existing forestry project, farmers are given
cash incentives or other prizes for planting the required number of trees.
Many Nigerians do not plant trees now, because there is no encouragement.
Admiral Ecological Challenge will create special awards for
those that distinguish themselves in the Admiral Eco-challenge Programme.
This will be done at the communities, local government, states and national levels.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Madlion Shedrach
Admiral Environmental Care
No.16 Giwa Road
Kaduna
Nigeria
Tel: (234-080) 378 62101
Fax: (234-062) 415 727
E-mail: adimralevon2005@yahoo.com
Lagos
Members
of the organization CLICK along with volunteers and tree donors will
embark on a tree planting programme for one week preceding the WED 2005
celebrations in three local governments in metropolitan Lagos. The local
governments were selected based on their need for 'greenery, type of
roofing materials and suitability to the project. The aim is to extend
the green corridor of the city and improve the aesthetics as well. CLICK's
volunteer group comprises staff of the local government, pupils in secondary
schools, community development associations and corporate sponsors.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Joseph Mojume
CLICK
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Lagos
Lagos
Nigeria
Tel: +2348055600519
E-mail: photoclick2003@yahoo.co.uk
Lagos
On the occasion of
World Environment Day, the Nigerian Youth Enviromental Network, in collaboration with
local and state enviromental agencies, are planing to issue a press release to a
number of media houses. They are also organizing: a rally on 3 June to create
awareness throughout the community; a seminar with the theme: YOUR ENVIROMENT AND YOU,
which is going to be held at the National Theatre in Lagos on 4 june; and a clean-up
exercise on 5 of june; as well as an award launcheon on 6 june for all participating
groups, organisations, agencies and sponsors.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Obalereko-iloTaiwo
Nigerian Youth Enviromental Network
E-mail: teelo4u@yahoo.co.uk
Port Harcourt
To commemorate WED,
the organization Environmental Consciousness and Justice Campaign in Port Harcourt is
organising a street rally in the community in order to raise awareness and to keep the
community clean. They are also organising a quiz for students in the community,
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Maduka Ume
Environmental Consciousness and Justice Campaign
32 Rumuola Road
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Tel: (234) 0803711579
E-mail: duka1ng@yahoo.com
Port Harcourt
To commemorate WED 2005, the Port Harcourt Link Club
will organize, from 1 to 5 June, a public awareness campaign on open space, biodiversity and the
greening of the urban environment. This will be supported by a special television report on careful
city planning to foster a clean and healthy environment. This documentary programme will be
shown from 1 to 5 June on Rivers State Television.
The main event will take place on 5 June 2005, with a series of lectures on the theme Green Cities - Plan for the Planet! One lecture will highlight Port Harcourt as an example of a garden city and will be presented by Mr. Olu Andah Wai Ogosi of the Nigerian Environmental Society and another lecture which will aim to engender a sustainable process to ignite an urban eco-revolution by Mr. Rowland Ogundu of The Port Harcourt Link Club at the College of Arts and Science (CAS) Conference Hall.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Rowland Ogundu
The Port Harcourt Link Club
Plot 15 B, Opposite Close C,
3rd Avenue, Federal Housing Estate,
Rumueme, Port Harcourt
Rivers State
Nigeria
Tel: (234-803) 319 7240
E-mail: rowlandogundu@yahoo.com
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Empangeni
Together with eight local schools in Mtubatuba,
the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs is organizing anti-litter campaigns and
tree planting exercises on the occasion of WED. The activity will last for three days.
Hlabisa and Mtubatuba Municipalities will help by providing refuse bags and a tractor to
remove the waste.
For more information,
please contact:
Muzi Mtshali
Department of Agriculture and Environmetnal Affairs
P/ Bag x 20018
Empangeni
Republic of South Africa
Tel: (27 035) 792 1624
Fax: (27 035) 792 1620
E-mail: lukemuzimtshali@yahoo.com
SIERRA LEONE
Freetown
Civitan Sierra Leone will
mark World Environment Day with a one-day workshop for teachers and a three-day
training programme on environmental education for school children in Sierra Leone .
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Abdul M. Fatoma
Civitan Sierra Leone
2 Pyke Street Brookfields C/O CSSL
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Tel: 23276814499
E-mail: civitansalonecivitan@yahoo.com
SOMALIA
Berbera
Every year, the organization Yovenco
in Berbera organizes a ceremony on the occasion of World Environment Day. This year, they will
organize a campaign to make the city clean and to raise the public's awareness about the
importance of protecting the environment. They will also mobilize the community through
the media by putting on plays about the environment.
For more information,
please contact:
Yovenco
Street No. 1
Berbera
Somalia
Tel: 252 2 447700
Fax: 252 2 743301
E-mail: yovenco@yahoo.comm
TANZANIA
Dar es Salaam
To commemorate WED, the Mabibo
Women Environmental Management Society is organizing solid waste collection and road
sweeping, as well as tree planting activities.
For more information,
please contact:
Ms. Zita Sebastian Nyiranda
Mabibo Women Environmental Management Society
P.O Box 21875
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Tel: (255) 0741 762171
E-mail: znyirenda@hotmail.com
USA-River
For World Environment Day this year,
Leguruki Secondary School in Tanzania has planned a compaign promoting the use of solar and
wind milss as sources of power and energy. They are also organizing clean-up efforts and
tree planting events to help the community to better understand the role of UNEP.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Anthony Musani
Leguruki Secondary School
USA-RIVER
Tanzania
Tel: (255 744) 874 986
E-mail: aamusani@yahoo.com
UGANDA
Lugazi
Caritas Lugazi - Sustainable Agriculture
and Environmental Management Programme will mark World Environment Day by organizing
for member farmer groups and other locals in the towns of Kayunga, Busana and Mukono
to plant trees along road sides. They will also organize "Keeping Your Towns Clean"
campaigns. In addition, there will be debates on the theme of Keeping Cities Green in schools.
For more information,
please contact:
Ms. Catherine Nabwami
Caritas Lugazi- Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management Programme
P. O BOX 87
Lugazi
Uganda
Tel: 25677610005
E-mail: nabwami@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.lugazi.org
ZIMBABWE
Bindura
To mark World Environment Day the Environment Action Support Youth (EASY) will be implementing a Zero Waste Initiative at Bindura University Campus through developing and implementing a sustainable waste management plan.
They will also clean up Bindura Town and Hospital.
For more information,
please contact:
Mr. Brian Machingura
Environment Action Support Youth (EASY)
Bindura University of Science Education P Bag 1020
Bindura
Zimbabwe
Tel: 263 071 7531
E-mail: bmachingura@yahoo.com |
