Excursions: Mathare
Slums
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Members
of the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA), which
was started in 1987 as a small self-help project to
organize their own sport and slum clean-up activities.
L-R: Jecton Obure, Peter
Karanja, Franklin Shelimba, Elisha Abongó, Collins Omonchi, George Nange, Stephen Muchoki,
Martin Magua, and James Waithaka
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WAVE visited children
at a school in Mathare and donated text books.
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Members of MYSA
outside the community library established by MYSA in
Mathare to provide a space for children to play, learn,
and rest.
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WAVE participants visiting the Mathare slum, one of
the biggest slums in Africa located in the outskirts of
Nairobi.
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Simba
Maasai Outreach Community:
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Maasai
women, who support themselves selling beaded artwork and
jewelry, welcome WAVE participants to Ngong Hills. Above
photo: Bali Devi, Chipko Movement, India being
welcomed by Maasai women.
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A
WAVE participant and indigenous community member take
part in planting trees, which will eventually provide
shade while women work.
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Green Belt Movement pilot project visit: |
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Murithii Kaburi,
Green Belt Movement (GBM), showed WAVE
participants progress made on its tree
planting pilot project in the Muranga district.
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Women
of the Kikuyu tribe showing their baked goods.
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Above photos:
Tree planting session at the GBM
pilot project in the Muranga District.
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Closing
Plenary: |
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Above photo: Daphne
Roxas, Philippine NGO Score Board, made an
intervention on "violence against women"
during the plenary session on the Draft Manifesto.
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Above photo: Irene
Dankelman, Netherlands and Marie-Claire Cordonner
Segger, Center for International Sustainable
Development Law (CISDL) presided over the plenary session on
the Draft Manifesto.
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Above photo: Bakary
Kante (UNEP)
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Above photo: Beverly
Miller and Olivier Deleuze (UNEP)
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Above photos L-R: Dais during the closing plenary with
Irene Dankelman, Netherlands; Olivier Deleuze, UNEP;
Martha Karua, Minister of Water, Kenya and Klaus
Töpfer,
UNEP Executive Director
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Above photos L-R: Martha
Karua, Minister of Water, Kenya; Klaus Töpfer, UNEP
Executive Director and Beth Mugo, Deputy Minister for
Education Science and Technology
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WAVE Snapshots:
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