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Dr. Kenneth Omondi Ochieng is and educator, a food forester, and a sustainable community farm expert working tirelessly to reforest Kenya, restore the natural ecosystems of Nam Lolwe (Lake Victoria), and improve the health and food security of the Kenyan people.

Kenneth and I met in early September 2022. I was scouring the World Wide Web for sincere planet warrior-educators trying to make a difference in big ways on the ground with people and other beings in need. I combed social media streams for hours everyday sorting through the sams and the real people doing real work in the field. I found several planet and social justice warriors. Kenneth was just such a person.

In late 2022, Kenneth and I had our first Zoom and set to work immediately. There were challenges. Connectivity, bundles, funding for bundles, and a difficult time difference, him being in Kenya and me being in Florida. We had to contend with not only our daily life schedules but also a six to seven hour difference depending on daylight savings time with Kenneth being ahead.

There were times we would plan on meeting but by that time, Kennth would have any bundles left either from using all his access minutes in the course of reforesting Africa for all species and solving the continents food scarcity and food insecurity issues or because he is a kind and generous person, loaning his bundles to someone he felt needed them more. Sometimes when he had none left, we were still able to meet because someone from his team or community would hotspot him with their bundles. The project was defiantly a community success.

The coolest part about this project is that we are now working to fund Kenneth going to Uganda to work with one of our other Creative Educator’s Coop, Ndagano Namwangwa, a DR Congo resident at a refugee camp in Uganda where he and his brother Mugisha started a school for the youth and adult camp residents. I was asked to collaborate with them on and ELL curriculum. We came up with having the learners write their personal and traditional stories in Swahili then translate their stories from Swahili to English. Then, we would turn these stories into multiple language versions and publish them all over the world wide web, the proceeds from which would predominantly go back to the storytellers and their school.

You see, the camp is suffering severe poverty, typhoid, and food scarcity and insecurity, and while they are doing some standard agriculture gardening, their yields are minimal. Kenneth believes he and his highly knowledgeable and experienced team can help with all these issues. We are hoping the book sales can fund this permaculture collaboration as well as the purchase of several digital tablets for the school. Any sales beyond that will go directly to the writers and artists of the stories. So please buy this first book and help fund this worthy work. We’ll also be making a book about the collaboration between Kenneth and Ndagano to improve the sustainability of the camp.

Kenneth and I have already started a second book together about living in a rural village on the shores of Nam Lolwe and have a third planned about Nam Lolwe.

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