Special Report: KELMA; CLIMATE CHANGE TRAILBLAZER IN MWINGI NORTH REGION

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change. 

Community is where humility and glory touch. Community is universal love. We were born to unite with our fellow men and to join in community with the human race. We should all exercise our gift to build community. “When we’re connected to others, we become better people” said Randy Pausch. 

This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. “They call this a community I like to think of it as home” -Pet Shop Boys. There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

Quality of life actually begins at home, it’s in your street, around your community. People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his/her own devices. Every person is defined by the communities he/she belongs to. “Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together” said Paul Ryan. 

"Every community is called to be an instrument for the liberation and promotion of the poor. Community is like a big family.”- Zygmunt Bauman. Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth”, Muhammad Ali said. 

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

KELMA FARM AND ORCHARD, a registered and a well-known farm in Mwingi North in collaboration with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) will be distributing varied tree seedlings especially the indigenous ones to 11 willing and committed respective high schools in the region to combat climate change. KELMA FARM AND ORCHARD will be issuing tree seedlings in the same region via their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in this month of April 2023 now long rains are falling.

The 11 schools will receive 100 trees each for planting as a measure to combat climate change. KELMA FARM AND ORCHARD will supply the trees to the following secondary schools: Kimangao Girls', Kimangao Boys', Kyuso Boys', Gai Secondary, Ikime Secondary and Tharaka Girls.

Others to benefit from our environmental conservation measures in partnership with KCB bank Kyuso Branch are Kyuso Girls', Mivukoni, Twimyua, Masyungwa and KatseSecondary Schools. 

We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change and we are the last generation that can do something about it. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything. We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns.

The world is reaching the tipping point beyond which climate change may become irreversible. If this happens, we risk denying present and future generations the right to a healthy and sustainable planet the whole of humanity stands to lose. 

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority” -Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft.