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EGYPT
Cairo
To commemorate World Environment Day on Saturday, 3 June, the Wadi Environmental Science Centre (WESC) will have a number of activities including:
- A display of cutting-edge energy and building technologies.
- Discussions by experts on waste reduction strategies, increasing
biodiversity and providing clean food, water, and air to the nations.
- Everyone will be able to share their ideas, meet new people, and
participate in a variety of pavillions, art exhibits, and contests.
- Other events available will be: a solar-powered music concert,
environmental art exhibition and film festival, exhibits and presentations by over a hundred environmental organizations, environmental workshops, recycled toy-making contest, and a renewable energy vehicle race!
Organic food and refreshments will be available.
For more information, please contact:
Esseqqat Rachid
Wadi Environmental Science Centre
10 El Managem and El Mahager Street, Mohandessen
Cairo
Egypt
Tel: +20 10 413 05 18
E-mail: WorldEnvironmentDay@wesc.org
Website: www.wesc.org/wed
MAURITIUS
Grand Gaube
To celebrate World Environment Day 2006, dune vegetations will be planted to
control sand erosion on beaches due to sea level rise and
climate change.
For more information, please contact:
Kheswar Beeharry Panray
Environmental Protection and Conservation Organisation
75, Chevreau lane, Calodyne
Grand Gaube
Mauritius
Tel: (230) 282-0423
Fax: (230) 282-0423
E-mail: kheswar@intnet.mu
Website: www.epcoweb.org
MOROCCO
Rabat
The Jeanne D'Arc's One world youth project group of Rabat / Morocco is planning to celebrate World Environment Day on 5 June with the following activities:
- Organizing an exhibition entitled "From Slogan to Action": Showing posters and painting on hazards of desertification of drylands.
- For children on the occasion. - Posters from different organisations dealing with envirnoment that exist on this theme will be collected. For each poster children will be invited to write a legend focusing on 3 questions: What the poster tell us?, How the issue affects us? and What can we do about it?
- A resource person will be invited from the Biodiversity and Ecology / Nature Protection departments to talk about the issue. The group will moderate a large debate to which all the school students will be invited to raise awareness about desertification and its impact on Morocco's development.
For more information, please contact:
Soumaya maghnouj
One world youth project / morocco's group
BP:6393 Madinat Al Irfane , Agdal
Rabat
Morocco
Tel: 002-12 6128 2962
E-Mail: soumayama@wanadoo.net.ma
Website: www.oneworldyouthproject.org
NIGERIA
Awka
On World Environment Day 2006, the St. Boniface Foundation plans to create
awareness through the distribution of flyers to the Nnamdi Azikiwe university campus. They will also embark on a clean-up exercise encouraging
students to pick up whatever litter is closest to him or her in the university
Campus.
For more information, please contact:
Elizabeth Okoro
St.Boniface Foundation
Department of Geological Sciences
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Awka
Nigeria
Tel: +243 80563-20935
E-mail: reallizkay@yahoo.com
Eket, Akwa Ibom state
As a way to promote World Environment Day 2006, the Environmental Protection and
Development Initiative (EPDI) will educate the general public in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, on the importance of World Environment Day. There will
also be a youth summit on 5 June.
For more information, please contact:
Daniel Edoho
Environmental Protection and Development Initiative (EPDI)
Pearl Hotel, 15 Barracks road
Eket, Akwa Ibom state
Nigeria
Tel: +234 8038971551
E-mail: epdi02@yahoo.com
Lokoja
To commemorate World Environment Day, the Obajana Cement Plc is organizing
a sensitization lecture based on this year's theme and also engage in a tree
planting exercise in collaboration with communities and government
institutions.
For more information, please contact:
Oyekunle Oyewole
Natural Resources Management Specialist
Obajana Cement Plc
Dangote Group, Obajana, Lokoja, Kogi State
Lokoja
Nigeria
Tel: 234 8037124537
E-mail: pklifeanew@yahoo.com
KENYA
Lamu
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2006, the Witu Farmers Forest
Association is planning a comprehensive conservation day with the following
activities: talks, tree planting, games, songs, competitions, speeches for
farmers living around the Witu gazetted forest and other parts of Lamu
District and the Coast province of Kenya.
For more information, please contact:
Eugene Lusweti
Witu Farmers Forest Association
c/o P.O. Box 69 Mpeketoni
Lamu
Kenya
Tel: 0734 878109
E-mail: cbotfund@yahoo.co.uk
Nairobi
UNEP's Regional Office for Africa is organizing a number of activities to mark World Environment Day in 2006. They include: essay, art and photographic competitions on the theme deserts and desertification, among school children throughout the country; an exhibition on the theme featuring a film on people in the drylands as well as issues of desertification at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi; a green parade in the city of Nairobi which will include a tree planting exercise.
For more information, please contact:
Angele Luh-Sy
UNEP-Regional Office for Africa
P. O. Box 30552
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: 254-20-7624292
Fax: 254-20-7623928
E-mail: angele.luh@unep.org
Website: www.unep.org/roa
Nairobi
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2006, the Jomo Kenyatta University
Environmental Management Association (JKUEMA) will launch an environmental
club in a primary school situated in the university. The Club will
educate the pupils on the importance of conservation. On 5 June, members
of JKUEMA and of the Club will go to Sasumwa Dam near Nairobi to plant
trees. The management of the dam is concerned about the rate of
desertification that is going on there and yet it is a water catchment
area. The University is ready to mobilize all resources to ensure that
every place that requires tree planting is covered. Another aim of this
exercise is for JKUEMA to introduce our young children to such a friendly
activity at an early stage.
For more information, please contact:
Amina Hassan
Jomo Kenyatta University Environmental Management Association
P. O. Box 62000
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: (254 72) 3955 068
E-mail: hasaniaminah@yahoo.com
Nairobi
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2006, the Network for the Youth in Combating Desertification a youth group, which has been actively involved in international conventions such as
the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - Conference of the
Parties 7 ( UNCCD-COP 7 ), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and are
also in the frontline in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change - Conference of the Parties 12 ( UNFCCC-COP 12 ) to be held in
Nairobi in November 2006. The main activities of the day will be a convoy comprising youth from
community groups in Kenya, school based environmental
clubs, and NGOs, among others. The convoy will leave Uhuru
Park, and walk towards Jogoo road and back to Uhuru Park where a youth
advisor to UNEP will be invited to recognize various young people who have been in the forefront in Combating Desertification in
Kenya. The convoy will carry banners and placards with environment
conservation messages. The youth will wear t-shirts and
caps bearing the message Environmental Soundness is our
Key Business.
For more information, please contact:
Rosemary Chege
Network for Youth in Combating Desertification.
P.O. Box 3672-00100 G.P.O
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: 0725-381239
E-mail: rozzie90@yahoo.com
SOUTH AFRICA
Pretoria
The EcoGladiator Junior Ranger Programme of the National Youth Development
Trust [NYDT] of South Africa supports the Year of the Desert theme, and
World Environment Day. The students, who are from schools in South Africa,
will present their science projects on desert habitats "The Chemistry of
the Desert" for assessment on World Environment Day 2006. We annually
present a 5-day internship in a desert environment at Richtersveld National
Park in the Northern Cape Province.
For more information, please contact:
Adrian Meyer
National Youth Development Trust [NYDT]
PostNet Suite #568, Private Bag x4, Menlopak
Pretoria
South Africa
Tele: +278 3339 5135
Fax: +278 6684 6455
E-mail: nydt@mweb.co.za
Website: http://www.nydt.org/
TANZANIA
Dar es salaam
To mark World Environment Day, the Media Works International has organized a display of media works and photo-digital film video.
For more information, please contact:
Madanga Shaaban
Media Works International
P.O. Box 35171
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania,
Tel: 255 22 2460943 / 255 744 939999
Fax: 255 22 2460943
E-Mail: msmadanga@gmail.com / msmadanga@hotmail.com
Dar es salaam
To mark World Environment Day, the Rural Development and Environmental Conservation Trust (RUDECT) and the Joint Environment and development Management Action of the University of Dar es Salaam (JEMA-UDSM) have decided to introduce a sub theme due to the local need, and that is “Protect environment to save the world from drought and hunger", this is due to the current global situation where drought and hunger are escalating poverty in Tanzania and the world at large. JEMA and RUDECT have organized the following activities:
- 1 June: Dissemination of environmental messages by use of banners, fliers, stickers and posters to raise public awareness on environmental issues at the University of Dar es salaam and its constituents and neighboring communities.
- 2 June: Pupils, teachers and JEMA members will work in the JEMA tree nursery.
- 3 June: Conduct training for JEMA, RUDECT and community members at the Council Chambers.
- 4 June: Distribution of fruit tree seedlings from JEMA tree nursery to primary schools.
- 5 June: To conduct physical cleanliness activities, volunteer at Mwenge health center, tree planting, environmental talk presentations, theatre performances to sensitize on environmental conservation as well as games and sports between the University and the Local communities within and outside UDSM.
For more information, please contact:
Castory Ntullu
National Focal Point of Africa Environment Outlook for
youth (AEO-for-youth) Tanzania
Information and Publicity Officer (JEMA-UDSM)
P.O.Box 12556
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
E-mail: cnlizget_24@yahoo.com
Mtwara
The Forum for Conservation on Nature (FOCONA) has chosen to celebrate this year's World Environment Day by planting mangrove seedlings in degraded areas-around salt pans and all cleared areas and cleaning-up the beach along the Mtwara urban ferry and along the Shangani Coast. FOCONA will also mobilize the coastal community (fishermen and fishmongers) to plant trees and clean up the fish market around the ferry.
For more information, please contact:
Musa Mhagama
Forum for Conservation of Nature
P.O.Box 92,
Mtwara
Tanzania
Tel: +255 745 835971
Fax: +255232333102
E-mail: m_mhagama@yahoo.com
UGANDA
Kampala
To commemorate World Environment Day 2006, the EnviroConserve AFRICA will publish both a supplement about the state of environment in Uganda and essays
from youths in various schools about what their leaders are doing to protect the environment. Other events set for the day are: an exhibition at
World Environment Day exhibition organized by the National Environment
Management Authority, the presentation of the Uganda Environmental Year
Planner 2006 and hosting of a large banner at EnviroConserve AFRICA with
messages encouraging every one to care for the environment.
For more information, please contact:
Robert Oduori
EnviroConserve AFRICA (Publication)
P.O. Box 8585
Kampla
Uganda
Tel: +256 41 268616
Fax:+256 41 268783
E-Mail: icol@africaonline.co.ug / ico@africamail.com
Kampala
To mark World Environment Day, the Children’s Vision – Uganda will have a number of activities including:
- Environmental education in Kampala and Rakai Districts
- Tree planting campaigns in communities and in compounds in collaboration with over 426 primary and secondary schools
- Mobilization and environmental awareness programmes with major focus
on the effects of deforestation and the importance of afforestation
- Cleanup environmental programmes
- Conduct debates on the factors leading to climatic and vegetation change and solutions will be discussed by community and school environmental health clubs
- Children’s Vision Uganda, will also carryout music, dance, drama and environmental competitions in schools and communities as well as organizing media talk shows about desertification and writing newspaper articles.
For more information, please contact:
David Mukasa
Children's Vision-Uganda
P.O Box 12578
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: +256 - 07724 72694
Fax:+256 - 04130 34597
E-mail: childvisions@yahoo.com
Website: www.childrensvision.95mb.com
ZAMBIA
Lusaka
To commemorate World Environment Day there will be a number of activities and events, one of them shall be Miss Environment Beauty pageant in which a national ambassador for environment will be chosen through whom community based initiatives on environmental issues on a non Governmental level shall be coordinated and monitored on a community level. To implement this event, we seek we seek sponsors.
For more information, please contact:
Dr Njowe Chrinson
CUSA House
2nd floor, Cairo Road
P.O. Box 38737
Lusaka,
Zambia
Tel: 260 9776 6175
Fax: 260 123 1286
E-mail: rio_ntwrk@yahoo.com / mebpz2006@yahoo.com
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