Kenyatta University don Dr Norah Atambo has challenged communities to use their endowed indigenous knowledge to teach youths to be actively involved in the fight against climate change.
Saying that efficient food security is a necessity for the survival of human beings, she reiterated the importance of taking care of the environment for maximum food production.
Dr Atambo was addressing parents, teachers and parents of Kisii Cultural graduands who took a two-week course on the community’s rite of passage and other cultural practices like herbal treatment.
She said that there is a possibility of beating the hazards of global warming and climate change if the youth could be taught how to blend modern digital technology with indigenous knowledge to solve them.
‘Let our youth know that their future survival depends on the prudent care of the environment and stand firm to use all ways to make it sustainable.”She said.
Saying that the elders of any community are experienced custodians of knowledge, she asked them to teach and encourage the youth to embrace sustainable agriculture practices like forest management.
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Dr Atambo, who is a lecturer in the department of literature, lauded Kiong’anyo Cultural Organization for sponsoring education seminars geared towards empowering the care of the natural resources.
She asked the members to adopt school programmes based on the mentorship of students during school holidays and use them to be ambassadors of change in their homes.
She asked the organization’s members to explain the causes and effects of climate change in their local languages and print them for easy and quick circulation of information to the populace about the great danger they will face if they cut trees carelessly without replacing them, throw garbage in their habitats, and emit excess emission of carbon to that pollutes the clean air used by man.
She asked communities to seek government advice on how they can partner with it to mitigate both global warming and climate change before it extends and causes havoc to human beings, animals and the general environment.
By Enock Okong’o.
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