SEAM (Self Education And Mentorship) Program

Climate, Environment and Climate Science

     COHESU-SEAM program intends to improve the nutritional status of families through training of adolescents and their parents on skills for local production of vegetables, legumes and fruits for improved diets. The project aims to provide potential income-generating skills to adolescents, which will enable them to make self-sustaining choices that they don’t normally receive from regular school curricula. SEAM program therefore teaches the children Arts and Crafts, smart agriculture & tree nursery start-ups, computer skills, business skills, and financial management skills from an early age through education and mentorships for hands on skills. COHESU-SEAM Climate Change Workshop was an initiative aimed at providing a blueprint to the nexus between SEAM programs and Climate Action. It was intended to offer background understanding on concept such as climate, weather, environment, seasons & seasons change as well as climate change and to link SEAM activities to Climate Action, to boost the momentum to realize The Paris Agreement on climate change through children and youth participations.

 The workshop program was designed in the way to achieve both the objectives and outputs with each session having its own learning objectives and concrete outputs. The outcomes of the training workshop were;

-          Initiated a well informed and climate change aware SEAM youths and children who can lead and engage in climate change action to improve environment conservation among themselves and their peers guided by mentors.

 -          Tentative plan for next steps that include tree planting to increase green cover for climate action, participate in plastic pollution control through recycling and reusing in tree nurseries and in gardening, and controlled waste disposal, sustainable agricultural practices for improved household nutrition.

By Jared Omondi

 Self-sustainable farming outpost program

     We have been training our SEAM children on self-sustainability, currently focusing on farming skills and having trained several children and distributed seeds to 20 families, on top of the 7 outpost home we had initially been training.

Seeds being distributed include: Spring onions, Managu (Black nightshade), Skumawiki (Collard greens), tomato, Brinjals (Eggplant), Dania (Coriander), Spinach, Cowpeas, Beans and Capsicums

SEAM skateboarders

     We are also working with the Skateboarding Society of Kenya to bring skateboarding to the children -both boys and girls- of the community. Our hope is that this activity will help bring the community children a space where they can participate in a unique outdoor sporting activity, by hopefully campaigning to gather the resources needed to build a miniature skate park on the SEAM grounds, which will be open to all the children within the community and outside the community. We hope that this will also give the boys of the community more of a reason to engage with SEAM and improve male enrollment and retention into the program.