Increasing youth participation in environmental conservation and restoration
Anne Raychelle Myra is a second-year Gender Student and a model at Egerton University. She is the founder of The Green Embassy Kenya (TGEK), a non-governmental organisation that she formed in 2019, to raise a voice for the youths to come out on environmental conservation and restoration. The organisation works together with other interested organisations to conserve, restore, and increase the current vegetation cover. They promote public awareness on important environmental health and climate change through holding public campaigns on environmental conservation and restoration and taking part in activities such as planting trees, cleaning rivers and sewerages, and also doing City cleaning.
Growing up, Anne and her siblings would drink traditional herbs prepared by their mother whenever they fell ill and it always worked. This motivated her to want to preserve the herbs and the environments they grew in even as she got older.
The Green Embassy Kenya has successfully conducted several projects on environmental restoration in Kenya in different counties in Kenya. They successfully run a project of cleaning river Wigwa in Kisumu County on 18th September 2020 during World Clean-up day under the #letLakeVictoriaBreathAgain. They also conducted tree planting and public sensitization on 25th September at Njoro Primary school in Nakuru County. This was followed by a tree planting session at Egerton University during Mashujaa Day and another one at Egerton University Botanical Gardens. Campaigns on environmental safety and restoration have mostly been conducted in Nakuru City and our online platforms.