Conservation in Kitui: August 2011

Massive tree planting

campaign in Kitui

By Boniface Mulu

The Managing Director of the Nairobi based Synergy for Development non governmental organisation, Mr. John Varghese, has announced that he will this year visit most of the Asian capitals to collect funds towards stopping child poverty in Kenya. He announced that the NGO will plant one million trees in the Kitui County in a one year’s time for environmental conservation in the region. Varghese, who is the founder of the Synergy for Development, asked the people not to be job hunters or beggars but to be job creators
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He  said that his NGO involves itself  in environmental conservation in the country and other parts of the world. He was speaking at the Kitui Catholic Diocese’s Our Lady of Africa Cathedral  hall during a one day business training seminar organised by the Kitui District Trade Development Office where participants were drawn from the Kitui County. He was the main lecturer at the seminar.
He said: “We in the Synergy for Development, have passion for the nation and action for humanity.” “We are not funded by anybody in the world. It is we ourselves who look for ways of getting funds of running our organization,” Varghese said.
The NGO chief said that the NGO was started in seven countries of the world including Kenya, Burundi and the Scandinavian countries with their headquarters being in Nairobi.
On her part, the Kitui District Trade Development Officer, Mrs. Jacinta Mwongeli, said that there are ways of identifying the business opportunities. Mwongeli said that the economists say that you can’t start business today and expect profits next in the week The official asked people to use the government offices to benefit in terms of businesses. “You must seek the intervention of experts,” she said.
Mwongeli  said the government’s plan to tarmac the Kangonde-Kitui-Kibwezi road is because of the economic importance. She said that the locally (Kitui) available materials for the booming businesses include sisal and ought to be utilized to the fullest.