November 2011 monthly brief

The last edition of the national gold

expeditions for this year took place in

the Aberdares from 24th to 28th No-

vember. The venture involved over 250

participants from 10 Award institutions

who braced the rain and the muddy

conditions to prove that they are up to

the task of covering the more than 80

Km journey in 4 days. The route saw

them go through the Aberdare ranges

on the Othaya side and experience the

steep terrain that characterizes the

ranges in the midst of rains on a daily

basis and muddy conditions of the

route. Despite this the participants were

not deterred and were in high spirits

from start to finish. Congratulations to

all the participants. The following were

the institutions that participated:

Michuki Technical Training Institute

had 6 bronze participants

Kiambu High School had 49 gold

participants

KMTC had 1 gold participant

St John Ambulance had 7 gold and 5

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silver participants

MCDC had 14 gold participants.

St Joseph Girls School, Kibwezi

Makueni Boys High School had 15

gold participants

Starehe Boys Centre had 20 gold

participants

Starehe Girls Centre had 5 gold

participants

Rwika Technical Training Institute

had 13 gold and 4 bronze par-

ticipants.

In this edition

National Gold Expedition

Open Award Participant

Kiambu High School and

Tumutumu School Resi-

dential Project

Drug Abuse Workshop

Office Christmas Break

Participants form

Mathare Child

Development

Centre (MCDC) n

jubilation at the

end of the expe-

dition.

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This month we are taking a look at Abdi-

kadir Aden, a 23 year old youth from

Garissa County. Aden is pursuing the gold

level of the Award as an Open Award

participant. Currently Aden has been

heavily involved in environmental aware-

ness and literacy campaigns in Garissa as

part of his Service Section for the Gold

Level. One of the milestones he has

achieved was the equipping of Yathrib

Primary School with an environmental li-

brary (the one and only existing environ-

mental library in North Eastern region) The

library is equipped with resources in dif-

ferent fields

of environ-

ment such as

water, en-

ergy, waste

management,

health, agri-

culture, biodi-

versity, cli-

mate change etc, the library’s main goal

is to empower the youth and children

with environmental knowledge for sus-

tainable development and a better fu-

ture. The initiative for the library forms

part of Aden’s achievement for the

UNEP Tunza for Children and Youth

and was made possible by the

support of UNEP, Kenya Organi-

zation for Environmental Education

(KOEE), UNICEF (Hand Wash Cam-

paign) and Garissa Municipal

Council through Garissa Youth Envi-

ronment Movement of which he is

the Technical Assistant.

“ My Future plans are to estab-

lish similar centres in other insti-

tutions up to tertiary level”

Abdikadir Aden

The National Campaign

Against Drug Abuse Author-

ity ()NACADA) in continua-

tion with its mandate of

combating drug abuse held

a sensitization workshop in

Nakuru from 15th to 17th

November. Among some of

the deliberations in the

workshop was the need for

youth organizations to en-

gage more on issues affect-

ing the health of young

people, HIV & AIDS, alco-

hol and drug abuse and the

need for youth organiza-

tions to network and com-

plement one another in their

various . Also discussed was

the need to involve the

young people in the fight

against alcohol and drug

abuse and concentrate

more on the consumer than

supplier. The Presidents

Award Kenya was repre-

sented by Jinnarius Wam-

bugu and among some of

the youth organizations that

we present included:

Undugu Society Kenya

District Youth Officer-Rongai

Uprising Comedians

Nakuru Youth Foundation

Henry Wanyoike Foundation

Africa Youth Trust

Kenya Muslim Youth Alliance

Youth Alive Kenya

Storm of Hope Kenya

Action NET For The Disabled

Akili Dada

Persons With Disabilities Net-working and Dev

Africa Nazarene University

Abdikadir Aden

handing over some

of the library re-

sources to the guest

of honour during

the handover cere-

mony at the school.

In the month of November the following bronze and

silver ventures were undertaken by the Award units

indicated:

St Mary’s Girls School, Igoji went to Ngong

Kenya High School went to Machakos

St Andrews School, Turi went to Londiani

Gulab Lochab Academy went to Kerio Valley

Makini School went to Aberdares

Moi Girls School , Kibwezi went to Ngong

Loreto Convent, Msongari went to Machakos

The Board of Trustees and Secretariat of the President’s

Award Kenya take this opportunity to extend our seasons

greetings to everyone as we look forward to welcoming

the new year and the celebration of Christmas by our

Christian brethren.

We have closed the offices

for the December holidays

until 9th of January 2012. In

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in September 2011 and donated USD 1500 towards the

project) who was touched after observing the dilapi-

dated condition of the classrooms during the IGE project

work she undertook in Sept. 2011 while the students pro-

vided the labor for the work as part of their Residential

Project for the Gold level.

From 25th to 29th November participants from Kiambu High

School and Tumu Tumu Girls School participated in a reha-

bilitation project at Ndabibi Primary School in Naivasha.

The project saw the students cement two classrooms and a

verandah as well as level up a trench which had been occa-

sioned soil erosion. The project was made possible by one

of the delegates from Bermuda (she participated in the IGE

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