Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Forest


FOREST

A forest is an extensive area of land covered with trees. Forest is faced with many problems which are, trees cut down for use in the timber industry which leads to over-exploitation. The other problem is where people are in need of land where they can do farming and stay they clear forest. There is also the major effect which is deforestation which means cutting down of trees in a forest without planting others to replace them. Defforestation leads to loss of rain fall, trees improve the climate of a place when trees loss water through their leaves they add moisture to the atmosphere which help in the formation of rain when trees are cut down there may be loss of rainfall or even no rainfall. Forest also are habitat for wild animal which attract tourism in Kenya where the country is able to earn foreign exchange from the tourist, when the forest are destroyed the animal lose their habitat making animal to migrate. All this problems can be overcome through the conservation of the forest in the following ways, the government and the non-governmental agencies should educate the people on the importance of forest and conservation of the environment it may be done through schools, media, people should also engage in public campaigns for the conservation of forest .The government and other environment groups should also give free seedlings to the public for the planting of trees.

BY; Alex Ndegwa,
MYSA Shootback

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Political Violence


Political violence

For the first time Kenya has experienced one of the worst humanitarian crises in history soon after the presidential election outcome was announced everything went in chaos. Looking around me, I could see clouds of smoke in a distance. I couldn’t believe my eyes, this was not the peaceful Kenya that I grew up in.
Some people chose to let anger blind them and strike down the innocent,yet other chose to walk off with the property of other. so many families were forced out of there homes. The displaced families were packed to capacity in police station,churches,mosques and schools. Mostly women and children were facing serious shortage of food and water as all shops and supermarket remained closed. it also emerged that crime such as rape cases whereby both boys and girls were sexually molested.
Violence in the country has led to senseless loss of lives and massive looting and property. Politics should not divide us along tribal lines, lets not the so-called politics tear us apart because once that happens, it will be very difficult to put the pieces together again. Lets not go to the point of no return.
Kenya is a beautiful country; we are one nation, one country and let’s keep hope alive.
LET’S STIMULATE CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT BEFORE THE EXTERNAL WORLD DEMAND IT.

Story by; Irene Waisonga
Photos by; Nicholas Mathenge, Peter Ndolo and James Njuguna