For 30 years, Umoja Primary School has stood on the 10 hectares of land in Nairobi’s Eastlands Umoja Estate. With over 1000 pupils, the school has shaped several thousands of scholars who have excelled and joined National, Provincial, District and Private high schools and later undertook different professions.
With 4 blocks and 36 classes, Umoja Primary has since seen a transformation in its environment in line with Environmental conservation strategy set by the management to ensure serenity of the learning platform.
On a normal working day you will find Mr. Mbugua, the deputy head teacher on his chores to make certain the smooth running of the institution has he makes routine round checks.
From the classes to the kitchen and the latrines he together with the assigned teacher on duty, the soft spoken Mbugua ensures the activities of the institution are adhered to in accordance to the set up parameters.
Trees are part of the larger plan to increase the forest cover within the school compound.
“We want to follow the footsteps of the late Prof. Wangari Maathai for her death evoked the pupils’ urge to plant more trees,” said Mbugua.
He added that conservation of the environment could act a platform to building other conservation matters.
“We have a norm of litter collection twice every week in the whole compound more especially that generated from the trees and waste paper,” quoted the second in command.
On the future of the conservation awareness program by Ideal Community Empowerment (Ideal Environment), Mbugua said that the school management is looking forth to empowering the individual pupils to living positively with their environment and enlighten them on how to be Eco-friendly with their environment and possibly nurture their talent and career development.
“I believe by the end of the year, we will have enthusiastic pupil environmentalists to foster the agitation of environmental conservation.
Thank you for embracing conservation in your school Mr. Mbugua. Keep it up Umoja Primary School
ReplyDeleteAs a former student at Umoja Primary School, I would like to confirm that we did all we could to ensure our environment was clean and healthy. There were adequate trees, the grass was green, and the fence was made of trees and plants other than bricks or wires. Umoja Primary School is a green school and I can't wait to be present in its compound.
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