By Enock Okong’o
Teachers and parents have been asked to expose their students to activities that are geared towards the protection of the environment.
Speaking to the teachers and students of Kenyenya Secondary School, Kisii based environment protection expert, Alloys Mosoti, said that if the youth are taught early on the importance of their environment, world problems like airborne diseases could be minimized.
“If you learn to take care of your environment, you will not spend any money to visit hospitals to treat yourself,” he stated.
Mosoti who is the 2014 Elder of the Burning Spear Presidential awardee said that his main mission is to visit one school after another to sensitize the youth on the climate change related causes.
He asked researchers and teachers to write books, magazines and periodicals in vernacular to demystify climate change and its effects.
“Most of the seminars on the causes, effects and mitigations of climate change are done in town hotels where the common man is excluded,” he said.
During the visit to Kenyenya Secondary School on Tuesday, Mr Mosoti launched the Environment Protection Club in the School.
He asked students to be ambassadors of change in their homes because they are the majority that can convey the message easily.
“Use the knowledge you have acquired in school to be the true advocates of our environment that we must preserve for the posterity,” he said.
He asked the learners to plant indigenous trees in their homes because they provide shade for animals, birds and human beings.
“Trees beautify our environment besides provision of clean air for us to breath in.
On his part, the Principal of Kenyenya Secondary School, Mr. Wilfred Nyakundi, who was flanked by his deputy Mr. Abea Bogonko, promised to support the newly formed club in the school to protect the environment.
He appealed to all teachers to be in the forefront towards the care of the environment in addition to the provision of holistic knowledge to learners
