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World Water Day 2023: Access to Clean Water Remains a Challenge
Water is a very unevenly distributed resource meaning that millions of Kenyans still lack this basic need. We provide tips you can employ to improve access to water.
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A New Dawn for Nairobi Rivers?
Scientifically, I mean naturally, water is colorless and odorless. But the water you find in Nairobi river will beg to differ. The river has become heavily polluted over the years due to various human activities such as dumping of untreated sewage and solid waste, industrial pollution, plastic pollution and agricultural runoff.
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Prayers and Bags of Maize Won’t End Hunger and Drought in Kenya
Kenya ranks 94th among 121 countries according to the latest Global Hunger Index Report. This puts Kenya among the hungriest countries in the world. The number of Kenyans facing starvation has risen from 4.2 million to 6 million.
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The super rich control the food system – and now they are profiting from Africa’s rocketing food prices.
Figures published today by Greenpeace show that between 2008 and 2022, food imports rocketed by more than 650 per cent in Kenya.
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What Made MAKE SMTHNG Week 2022 a Special Event
Have you ever heard of buy nothing make something? This is making something instead of buying and reusing something else that you would have otherwise considered as waste.
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LET’S RECAP: MAKE SMTHNG WEEK 2022
I’ll be honest, not until one month ago did I have any knowledge of, or idea about, MAKE SMTHNG week. This is an event that inspires such fervent creativity, joyous fun, incredible ingenuity, inspired pieces of art… I could go on but I may be getting too excited here looking back at the event over…
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Conscious Consumerism: Make SMTHNG Week at a Glance
It's about that festive time, and like the rest of the world, consumption is at its peak in Kenya. During this period, almost everything revolves around celebrations, which then revolves around consumption- because we are buying into the festivity idea, which means choosing on impulse instead on a needs basis.
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Creativity in the Making; Nothing is a Waste!
Deep in ourselves there is a talent that needs to be identified, ignited and nurtured into something unique and amazing; that’s what Make Smthng week was all about at Ubunifu Hub.
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Chemical fertilisers: unnecessary evil for farmers
The proponents of fertilisers view this as a significant step towards reducing the cost of food production in turn lowering the skyrocketing food prices.
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Greenpeace Africa calls for consistency in Ruto’s clean energy leadership
In a suprise turn of events, president Ruto has committed to building a natural gas pipeline from Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa and later to the capital Nairobi.
