World Water day (Thwake Dam Visit)
World Water Day is easy to celebrate in speeches. Harder is standing at a dam and realising how much upstream behaviour becomes downstream reality—how a bottle thrown casually can become part of someone else’s flood.
The Nairobi Rivers Commission and UN-Habitat organised a community trip to Thwake Dam so Nairobi stakeholders could see what pollution costs when water is meant for millions—not a photo opportunity only, but a lesson in responsibility.
At flag-off, Dr Pamela Olet stressed river regeneration and government commitment. Vice Chair Prof. Elijah Biamah and Commissioner Dr Duncan Ojwang were present—leaders putting bodies on a bus, not only signatures on paper.
Thwake is impressive: water storage, hydropower potential, irrigation, and the quiet argument that Athi and Thwake—and tributaries like Nairobi, Ngong, and Mathare—need to flow clean enough to be useful. Efficient flow matters because dams do not fix what we refuse to manage upstream.
Waste management and river maintenance are not ‘nice to have’ items; they are the difference between water you can plan around and water that brings filth to your doorstep. If you live upstream, remember someone downstream is drinking your mistakes. If you live in Kibera, you already know that truth in your bones.
Coming back from Thwake, the homework is simple to say and hard to live: fewer shortcuts, more bins, more honesty about where rubbish ends. Water day is not one calendar date—it is every day you choose not to throw plastic into a drain.
Kibera does not need more slogans; it needs cleaner tributaries, safer crossings, and neighbours who treat water like the shared inheritance it is.
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. 😊😊