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Kwea Milele is a group of friends who met online whilst they shared the same passion – hiking! They have scaled almost all the peak points in Kenya, from Ngong hills to conquering Mt. Kilimanjaro. Last month while on a hike to Mt. Kenya they passed through the Mt. Kenya forest whose cover was destroyed by fire, and being people who also take care of nature decided to do something. Here they go!
What is the name of your project: Kwea Miti Initiative
Why did you choose the project:We are a nature-loving group. Most of our excursions are in heavily forested places and therefore we strongly felt the need to give back and make Mount Kenya greener notably after the fire destroyed forest cover worth. In addition, Our group is known as Kwea (means hike) and since we are on a tree planting mission, the name Kwea Miti Initiative fit in perfectly.
How many people are in your team: We have five people who will be working together to fundraise, co-ordinate activities and bring the whole project to completion. But as a whole we shall be working with everyone who is willing to contribute their time, skills and money to the project.
How do you plan to Make It Work: Making the project known to everyone and anyone. This project in not only about us, as Kwea Milele group, but about all the nature lovers out there. We are giving people an opportunity to give back to nature in a big way. So we plan on spreading the word for people to help us fundraise. Read on…
Just as the project title reads, someone somewhere realized girls from poor backgrounds were missing lessons, simply because they could not afford Sanitary towels! Meet Florence Kamaitha and Evans Muriu, who have a cause to raise funds to set up a factory to reproduce re-usable sanitary towels. Here is their story
Why did you choose the project : We visited a school in Thika, and the head teacher shared the plight of the girls,. The school unblocks toilets every week, as the girls in the school use pieces of clothes, blankets and chunks of mattresses during their menses. This is very unhygienic, but the bitter part of the story is that most of them cannot not afford sanitary towels, and with everyone around the country trying to raise funds to buy the sanitary towels and donate to the girls, we thought we could come up with a better, economic and hygienic way to solve this problem….re-usable Sanitary towels. What is the inspiration behind the project: We were informed that some girls miss school during their menses 4 days every 28 days. The same girl will lose 13 days each term because of her menses. In a whole academic year, she will lose up to 39 days, which is 6 weeks of learning time. If we don’t help solve the situation now, we will have drop –outs while still in school and thus the name, No Missing Periods coz of Periods. Read on…
We called for ideas. You responded. In came a number of awesome ideas. The results are out. After an evaluation of all the entries, the #MY1PC team settled on four of the best ideas. The evaluation was based on the 1%CLUB guidelines, and the most innovative ones were shortlisted to get the support of the #my1pc campaign.
…and because we wouldn’t want to let a great idea go to waste, we are taking the ideas on board and having them on the 1%CLUB platform where they will join other projects on the 1%CLUB that are currently being realized. The 1%CLUB is a platform that connects smart development projects with people, money and knowledge around the world. It simply aims at getting you and your friends to chip in with 1% of your resources, time or skill.
On March 22nd 2012, World Water Day, Butterfly Works launches a serious, but fun game about water scarcity in slums. The game and supporting Facebook campaign aims to create awareness amongst Dutch youth about the life of young people living in slums and especially in relation to water and the environment.
World wide, nearly 1 billion people live in slums and the number is growing, water is a basic necessity and providing access to clean water and sanitation for the world’s poor is one of the millennium development goals set for 2015.
Recently the popularity of ‘Games for Change‘ is growing, whereby the help of gamers is enlisted to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. GetH2O Challenge is a game about the challenges that slum dwellers face getting (clean) water. A fun game based on real life situation, with an educational purpose the game allows you to experience the race against the clock managing water, housing and pollution.
In the game you play the role of a ‘Change Maker’ who is working for the good of the community.
Your aim in the game is to build houses and manage the water supply while keeping the pollution in check, you can build water tanks and wells to improve the supply but time is always against you. In the end the best way to win the game is to build a community centre where the whole community come together to take action to solve the problem for once and for all.
On the accompanying Facebook campaign page Ben and Winnie, two students who live in Kibera, (an informal settlement of Nairobi) Kenya, share a video message giving you a glimpse into their life and the challenges they stumble upon getting water everyday.
By playing the flash game Dutch young people can experience slum life and what choices you can choose from and in that way learn to understand just how difficult things can be. Young people motivated to do something about the issue can share the game and the video messages with friends on Facebook, or donate money to one of a selection of water projects through the crowdfunding site 1%CLUB who is collaborating in the campaign.
“The thing is” says Stephen Musyoka at the end of his keynote speech: “Are you gonna let your idea become a white elephant or are you taking it to the next level?”
Ten ‘o clock. In Amsterdam the main stage is filling up. On the screens we see Nairobi, Cape Town, Kampala, Buea, Ramallah, London, Cairo. The idea for running with the Cheetahs originated from a Ted Talk were the cheetah generation was labeled as the young people seen in cafes in Nairobi who had things going and put into movement instead of the so called hippo’s who are slow and have no idea what is going on. We are gonna catch up with them for one day.
One of the Cheetahs is a very fast running guy from Nailab in Nairobi Stephen Musyoka. Stephen also known as the ‘King of Facebook’, The guy who reads only one book: Facebook
“Facebook”, says Stephen “can be used to connect with everyone in the world. You can use it for family but you can take it a step further and use it to solve problems in the world. You have a problem and someone far away has the solution. Almost everybody has Facebook. We use it in Kenya to solve all kind of problems. Kenya for Kenyans for example was to get money together for famine. We brought together 5 million euro’s in one month. Now how did we get the money? We use our mobile phones to transfer money. This was another example of bringing stuff together. I didn’t invent mobile money. A Cheetah did. I read the idea in the Nailab in Nairobi. I thought: what can we do about the crisis. It is about being at the right time at the right place.
Mobile payments are easy and can be used anywhere as long as you have connection. Just imagine the Masai are using it. I used it last night transferring money from Amsterdam. Cheetahs always take your message somewhere.“The thing is: Change starts with you. You see something while you run around town and you think: what can I do? Ask people to do things back. Hey I got on your bus for years. What do you do for me ?
How do you plan to Make It Work: Making the project known to everyone and anyone. This project in not only about us, as Kwea Milele group, but about all the nature lovers out there. We are giving people an opportunity to give back to nature in a big way. So we plan on spreading the word for people to help us fundraise. 
