International Climate Challenge

During the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen (7-18th December 2009), the International Climate Challenge project gathered the voices of over 1,000 you people from across the UK, Kenya and India. Read the "Hear Our Voices" booklet.

Zac Goldsmith, writing recently in the UK newspaper the Guardian, lambasted children and parents for being “the unhappiest in Europe, despite unprecedented material wealth” and claiming that while watching 13.9 hours of TV a week they appear to have “become increasingly insulated from the natural world”...

The international Climate Challenge (ICC), a programme that helps schools develop solutions that assist communities to tackle climate change concerns, has begun its second year in Kenya, with successful meetings for school principals and lead teachers.

Regional meetings held in Matuu, Embu and Nakuru were attended by a total of 65 secondary school principals and 140 teachers. The meetings were supported by representatives from Provincial and District Education Offices as well as NEMA District Environmental Offices.

This is the opening line from a video produced by Greenpeace in 2008. One year on and many of those springs are now completely dry!

 It seems now, more than ever before, that a combination of factors is causing what is fast becoming an impending disaster for Kenya. The macro climate appears to be heating up and becoming less predictable, in terms of temperature and rainfall, while at the local level, rampant deforestation over the past few decades is thought to be causing similar climatic changes on a micro-scale. This combination of climatic macro and micro effects is beginning to hit Kenya’s water, food and power supplies in a very serious way. As a result people are starving and people are dying!

For long we've simply regarded plastic items, more especially plastic bags, to be an environmental hazard in terms of their contribution to the destruction of the earth's aesthetic appeal. However, the I.C.C group at Precious Blood School came to realise that the damage goes beyond the usual, including:

1.Killing of grazing livestock when they accidentally swallow the bags;

2.Destroying the beauty of the world around us. 

For quite some time now global warming has turned out to be a principle global concern as its devastating effects have started being observed and felt worldwide.