Given the current environmental challenges facing arid and semi arid areas such as: environmental degradation, climate change, land use changes; children need to be informed sufficiently since they are the future leaders and beneficiaries of their environment.
Proposed Environmental School Activities
o Formation of environmental clubs
o Inter school competitions on environmental issues
o Water and energy preservation and harnessing
o Use of renewable and green energy
o Recycling of waste products to reduce pollution and provide an alternative source of energy
o Environmental re-greening and rangelands rehabilitation program
Information Sharing
Access to computers for pastoralist children is a major challenge. Their counterparts, who sit for the same exams, have a competitive edge because they start using computers in class one. Pastoralist children have to look for computer courses after their high school education is complete which can be expensive for parents and delays their entry into the workforce. The Resource Centre, being the hub of research in the area, will provide training and learning materials to encourage children to visit the centre and interact with researchers and community members. The centre hopes to gain access to computers, a projector screen, and video equipment, and also improve upon their solar power system to enhance this information-sharing atmosphere.
Supplementary Feeding Program
The last drought caused a lot of schools in the region to close and many children were unable to attend classes due to lack of food both at home and in schools. SORALO would like to establish a dairy goat program for schools to provide milk that could be partly used by the schools, but could also be sold to purchase cereals to feed the children. This program could also be used as a model to look at the quality of the products produced by a single animal rather than keeping too many animals that have less value in terms of production.
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