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Umande Trust's Bio-centre Initiative Program Profile Featured in Wash Impact Network Result For development Website

The Bio-Centre Initiative helps create open-defecation free urban neighborhoods through offering a menu of cashless payments, sanitation financing, and making sanitation facilities affordable. http://washinnovations.r4d.org/program/bio-centre-initiative

TUMAINI YA JAMII CHAMPIONS TRAINING ON 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2015

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With the untimely death and rampant fire outbreaks at informal settlements in Kenya, Umande Trust resolved to partner with Citadel limited to ensure the aftermath of these calamities is not as heavy upon the afflicted members. Together, the two organizations in partnership with Jubilee Insurance came up with tumaini ya Jamii insurance policy; a product that seeks to compensate the directly affected families as they try to salvage the remains of their life and properties.                                                        Umande Trust hosted a one day training workshop at the Nicofeli bio-centre in Kibera of champions/agents selected from all informal settlements covered by Umande Trust in Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu and Embu. Mr. Bernard Mwaniki from Citadel took time to educate the champions on the benefits of being members of the insurance policy. The policy seeks to compensate house fires, disability from acciden

Umande Trust and Practical Action Realizing The Right To Total Sanitatio...

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YOUTH TAKES THE BATON FOR A GREEN FUTURE 14th-18th SEPT, 2015

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Who said a child cannot take care and nurture another; well it has been such an amazing week of adopting a tree. #youth baton has been running an “Adopt a Tree Week” campaign concurrently with youths in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique and Kenya seeking to emphasize the importance of trees in schools and the general environment. Each student was given a chance to adopt a tree and taken through the process of planting and nurturing it to its full growth.                      Given the tremendous Deforestation in Kenya, The campaign was aimed at instilling into the students at an early age the environmental importance of planting trees around us. The campaign was not restricted only to schools but also institutions like churches, organizations and individuals. The exercise was conducted in partnership with Kenya Forest Service-KFS (Samuel Wachira) and Umande Trust who coordinated the whole 5 day event. Mr. Samuel wachira, the Langata and Kibra sub-county KFS representative, took the