Special Campaign

Envirosafi 2006 project

Nairobi is made up of 3-4M people where there’s a waste generation of 15,000t daily of municipal waste. Between 40-60% of Nairobi’s resident stay in areas devoid of infrastructural facilities e.g. clean water, sanitary waste disposal, access roads, drainage, health and education services, decency and privacy.

Moreover, the housing is of poor quality and inadequate. This makes the informal sector of Kenya. These are our target audience. There’s no organisation in Nairobi Eastlands that currently provides in magnitude the services and products that Environclean Community Group envisages to provide in these low-income neighbourhoods. By teaming with many self-help groups in these areas, we hope to launch a permanent cleanup campaign done frequently to ‘scour and prop’ up these places and give these people their dignity. We are also creating recycling schemes. Please Download articles below.

Clean Up the World Weekends

Your help comes in form of funds to help these initiatives. These are people who live below a dollar per day;

• with £5 a month we can offer them livelihood, clean sanctuaries, hope and above all inspiration to want to take care of themselves and their loved ones more if they have help
• £20 a month can enable them set up perimeters for the recycling centers, provided transport modes - like donkeys on carts or ‘mikokoteni’ (handcarts) to carry the waste to recycling center instead of using polluting cars (reduce the carbon eco-print), can produce an industry to manufacture plastic containers for the refuse, can help produce compost manure for sale, open new tree nurseries (help afforestation), create resource centers with libraries and internet facilities etc.

Clean a river

There has been initiatives to clean Nairobi River in recent times. Please download and Read Nairobi River Pollution: a threat to health.

Putting grey water into use

We would like to do much but we cannot without help. We have expertise but with funds we can turn waste water into usable water.

One type of wastewater treatment project is the reed-bed system. This system is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly method of treating sewage through small treatment works. The reed beds are used to remove the pollutants. Also, the reed-bed system has the ability to remove pollutants from plant biomass with the natural energy from sunlight. Since the reeds can be harvested each year along with providing a decent wildlife habitat, this can improve the quality of the ecosystem.

The capital and operating costs of the system are comparatively low and inexpensive compared to other wastewater treatment systems. All waste leaving the building will be directed to an outdoor engineered reed beds forming wetland areas that host an area for the growth of bacteria congregating around the rooting systems. These break down the organic pollution to improve the water quality to an acceptable level. In most cases, by treating the wastewater effluent through the reed bed system, the effluent quality is lower than regulatory discharge standards. Such areas can also create valuable conservation reserves and increase local biodiversity.

Microbes Convert Wastewater into Useable Electricity. Read more.

Support an educator in Africa

Environclean intends to equip the disadvantaged youth with knowledge and simple skills to enable the projects we begin to be sustainable and form a web of economic activities, this means year-round community initiatives for 12 months to increase awareness of Environclean’s in Africa through education, communication and awareness raising programs.

In a bid to increase our community based and supported work, Environclean intends to sponsor technical skills teachers (3) to work with the youth in Eastland, Nairobi. The teacher’s work would be of the utmost importance as educating /impacting skills onto the youth is crucial to ensure sustainable local development in the future.