Githeri Day
As a child, githeri was one of those meals that felt like home—maize and beans cooked together until the flavours married, filling enough to carry you through an afternoon of football and chores. The maize gave quick energy; the beans held you steady until evening.
On feeding days at ETCO, we sometimes swap rice and beans for githeri: simple, nutritious, and honest. There is nothing fancy about a big sufuria steaming behind a tent, but there is something sacred about it—350 children eating together, spoons scraping plates, someone asking for seconds and someone else laughing.
We watch the queue move, we check the salt, we make sure the smallest hands get served. Joy here is not abstract; it is a child’s full belly and the sound of friends arguing about who finished first. The communal sharing of meals builds a kind of belonging—proof that you are not alone in needing help, and not alone in receiving it with dignity.
On days when charcoal costs bite and tomatoes feel like a luxury, githeri still delivers: protein and energy in one pot, the kind of meal grandmothers cooked when budgets were tight and love was measured in fullness, not flair.
You can almost set your watch by it: when the sufuria lid lifts, the steam carries the same promise it carried years ago—enough for today, and strength for whatever the afternoon asks for.
Our hope is straightforward—that these children grow into adults who remember what it felt like to be fed without humiliation, and who pass that memory on in how they treat the next person in line.
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. 😊😊