Youth urged to pass information on waste management via social media
By Dickson Odhiambo
September 30, 2021
Youth urged to pass information
on waste management via social media
YOUTH in Kisumu City
have been urged to use Social media platforms in disseminating information that
targets proper management of wastes within the informal settlements.
A Lobby group has said the youth play a major role within
the community in terms of various development activities hence need to engage
on the issue of waste management within their localities.
Addressing youths from Four informal settlement of Kondele,
Obunga, Manyatta and Nyalenda areas in Kisumu City during a three day training
on Citizens Journalism on Waste management through a project known as Complex
Urban Systems for Sustainable Health {CUSSH}, Coordinator for Community
Empowerment and Media Initiative in Kisumu {CEMI-K} Bernard Okebe appealed to
the youth to help in passing information on proper management of waste through
social media platforms to reach fellow youth in such places.
Okebe has singled out face
book, Twitter, whataspp, snap chart among others as various social media
platforms which the youth can use in order to give such information to the
public instantly while reaching a wider audience.
Okebe says the issue of managing waste is an all-inclusive affair
hence no one should be left behind, adding that it should begin right away
within the households.
“We are here to sincerely urge the youth to make good use of
the various available social media platforms so as to help passing information
on proper management of waste within the areas they stay as this will really
help in making more youth to become interested in this issue,” Okebe says
He says already some youth within the four informal
settlement in Kisumu City have begun to manage waste and earn a living through
it where they turn wastes into useful products that help them survive.
Evans Gichana, the Director of Climate Change at the County
Government of Kisumu says the youth can team up together and do something meaningful
that can help change their lives.
He urges the youth to have dreams that can help change their
lives, adding that youth empowerment is a very good initiative which should be
surely put into real practice.
Charline Opiyo says her fellow youth should take advantage
of the social media in disseminating information of waste management.
She urges them never to waste too much time in posting
things which are not beneficial to the community.
“I want to urge fellow youth to make good use of social
media platforms in order to communicate issues of waste management to the
public. We are ready to teach the world through social media about waste management,”
she says.
Calvin Lucas says youth should fully take part on the issues
of managing wastes which help to have cleaning environment.
Waste management is a very important element of
environmental protection and its purpose is to provide hygienic, efficient and
economic solid waste storage, collection, transportation and treatment or
disposal of waste without polluting the atmosphere, soil or water system.
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