ANGAZA VIJIJI

Life skills for children and youth 

We work with younger people to introduce them to life skills through building their skill sets in sustainable farming, handling technology through safe spaces for students and we also build their skills in handling and using money. We partner with schools to build and strengthen student’s ability to handle money

Nature-Based Therapy

Health is a key component of sustainable development goals. We promote mental and physical awareness and well-being through organizing outdoor ventures that include hikes, treks, biking, networking, weekly bird and nature walks. We utilize interactions between people and nature to promote mental and physical health. We partner with mental expert organizations like PDO to organize team building and bonding sessions for organizations and groups to promote nature-based therapy.

Promoting Food and Nutrition Security

We believe in sustainable land use and understand that proper land use can produce more while helping to conserve nature. We mentor young people into understanding how food systems work, value chains and how we can produce safe, healthy, and sufficient food using little land resources through methods like fleet farming

Integrating Technology into local conservation for sustainable development

We recognize the significance of technological advancements in this age we are living in for ensuring sustainable living. To that effect, we try as much as possible to integrate possible technological elements into our work that engages schools and young people. This has been enabled through strategic partnerships as one of the approaches to ensuring sustainability. For example, we create safe platforms from where students and youth can engage safely without exposure to outsiders. We have also created a bat monitoring platform that students engaged in our straw-colored fruit bat monitoring use to collect monthly bat data thus early exposure to the current workplace environment.

Global learning on sustainability

In the spirit of Sustainable development, we work to promote partnerships among various actors both locally and globally to promote knowledge sharing that facilitates sustainable development and learning for global development. We are keen on promoting learning exchanges between local schools and their counterparts elsewhere across the globe. This we are advancing both through physical and virtual interactions.

Outdoor learning as an approach to Education for Sustainable development

We work to complement the government of Kenya’s effort to promote competence Based learning through our outdoor learning program. This program helps young people to learn about the science of ecology to enhance informed decision-making for sustainable livelihoods.

School and community-based conservation initiatives

We empower local communities in western Kenya to participate in conservation through research, education, and other conservation actions. The approach involves establishing and engaging school clubs, local community groups as local conservation custodians. We also mentor young people to become future conservation leaders.

Sustainable Tourism

We advocate for market-based approaches to the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity. One of the best approaches to promoting sustainable conservation is through empowering local people to earn from ecosystem services through nature-based enterprises. This helps to further enhance community-based conservation.