Care for Environment
Morning light catches plastic snagged in reeds along the Ngong River corridor, and the smell of damp soil rises where neighbours have already begun raking debris into sacks. This is not a distant conservation poster — it is work done in boots, with wheelbarrows, by people who live beside the water.
With support from the German Embassy, UN-Habitat, EcoWB, and Power Engineers, ETCO is walking alongside local groups to clean and restore stretches of the river. Community teams focus on their own sections — clearing channels, sorting waste, and testing ideas that turn a grim chore into safer neighbourhoods and small openings for work.
A Saturday that moves more than rubbish
The effort sits inside Nairobi’s wider “Let the Rivers Flow” push by the Nairobi Rivers Commission — a reminder that a river that breathes helps everyone downstream. On 20 November 2023, ETCO hosted a cleanup along Nairobi Dam tributaries in Nyayo Highrise Ward, inviting partners who care about the Ngong River staying healthy enough to support the city’s reservoir.
Along the Ngong, local groups work their own patches — not as strangers to the problem, but as people who know which bend traps plastic after rain and which footpaths children use on the way to school. That local focus is how fresh ideas show up: better sorting, safer burning where it must happen, odd jobs for youth who need a day’s pay, and a cleaner channel for the next person walking downstream.
Rivers do not fix themselves behind desks. If you want cleaner channels before the next heavy rain, join the next community sweep — gloves on, sleeves rolled, room for one more pair of hands.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day Celebration
In celebration of Menstrual Hygiene Day, ETCO, in partnership with Rotary Club of Nairobi Connect and with support from the Safaricom Foundation, today donated 900 sanitary towels to girls at Joash Olum Primary School. This initiative was aimed at supporting the girl child by promoting menstrual dignity, boosting confidence, and helping keep girls in school so they can stay focused on their education and future careers.
Kikuyu Rotary Club Team site visit - partnership
It was a pleasure hosting the Nairobi Rotary Club Connect’s Yumbya Nyamai, who also represented Ecologists Without Borders (EcoWB), alongside the Kikuyu Rotary Club Presidents—past, current, and incoming—George Ngotho, Patrick, and Marion respectively. We truly appreciated your visit to the site and your interest in the upcoming waste management project.
Efforts: Inputs - Waste Management Project Strategy
Soon, just very soon. It will all make sense. Efforts, sleepless nights.... Stress, strategies, failures and minor successes... One day, I'll look back and say, Yes, I created a *System* Generation System... Me and the people I serve will be grateful... I'll be happy to have served my purpose in this world. 😊😊