By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 9 June 2018. It has only one computer to its name. Yet the day school in a remote village in Njoro, Nakuru County, elbowed out national academic giants from the table of scientific innovations. Keriko Mixed Day School’s laboratory is a shell. But this […]
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 28 September 2017. An encounter with itchy sisal juice while extracting fibre fired up an idea by two students to explore ways of generating power from plant extracts. The idea has led the two, students of Keriko High School in Njoro to emerge the […]
By Jeckonia Otieno, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 24 March 2019. Mr David Kuria holds River Mbagathi dear. Every evening, when he comes from work, he takes a shower in the river before crossing to his home in Gataka. This is a common trend among many other residents of Nairobi.
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 26 March 2019. The sun burns with a hellish fervour as winds frantically whirl up the dust from the bare ground at Keriko Day Secondary School in Njoro. Exams are on. School bags hang delicately on the flowers outside the already full classrooms.
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 26 March 2019. As a testament of his generosity that helped him bag Sh100 million in a global competition, Peter Tabichi (pictured) has included his school, the local community and needy students in his grand plans of using his new-found windfall.
By Jeckonia Otieno, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 9 March 2019. Recently, Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko ordered for the prosecution of polluters of rivers flowing through Nairobi. This deserves support from all quarters since it is a health and aesthetic issue. That said, Mr Tobiko needs a reminder that he is […]
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 10 March 2019. A decades-old tree hangs precariously on the edge as flames consume its roots, slowly smoking life out the home of hundreds of birds at Lake Kamnarok National Reserve in Baringo County. Just around the tottering giant, are humongous trees reduced to […]
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 10 March 2019. A decade-old tree hangs precariously as it burns from the roots, the fire slowly smoking life out of the tree that houses tens of nests.
By Pamela Amia, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, ChimpReports. Published 9 March 2019. Human-wildlife conflict in Uganda has over the years been escalating between communities living in and around protected areas mainly around Queen Elizabeth National Park which is located in South Western part of Uganda.
CAROLINE CHEBET, a reporter for Kenya’s daily newspaper The Standard, was one of our first Giants Club African Conservation Journalism Fellows. Here she reflects on her first year taking part. I joined the Giants Club Fellowship programme in December 2017, several months after I started working for the Standard Group. I remember being so […]
