Environclean is registered under charity commission UK (Registration no. 1120470). SPIF (Studying Problems & Fix-It) is a registered community based
organisation under Ministry of Sports & Cullture in Kenya (Registration No. 09415)
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;
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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
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£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.
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.