Habits taught early tend to last, which is why environmental education is one of our core constitutional objectives, not an occasional add-on. We currently support environmental clubs in three primary schools serving the Donholm area, each running its own termly programme with our guidance.
What club activities actually cover
Club activities include compound waste audits, where pupils sort a sample of the school's own rubbish and are usually surprised by how much of it is organic or recyclable rather than genuine general waste, tree-planting sessions on school grounds using seedlings from our own nursery, and short talks on climate change and pollution pitched at a primary-school level rather than borrowed wholesale from adult environmental messaging.
We deliberately keep sessions hands-on rather than lecture-based. A waste audit, where pupils physically sort a bag of rubbish into categories themselves, tends to land far better than being told the same statistics in the abstract, and it's usually the session pupils bring up again weeks later.
The effect beyond the classroom
Teachers running these clubs tell us pupils carry the habits home, correcting how their own families handle household waste, in one case a teacher told us a pupil had started insisting the family separate compostable scraps after a waste audit session, exactly the kind of behaviour spillover we hope for but can't engineer directly ourselves.
We are actively recruiting more schools in Embakasi East to start environmental clubs for the coming term. If you're a teacher or parent at a school interested in setting one up, our environmental education coordinator can be reached through our Contact page to discuss what the programme involves.