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Nairobi, Kenya, January 26, 2024 -We’re proud to announce the launch of the primary two episodes of the Group Sayari on Nationwide Geographic Africa’s official YouTube Channel on the twenty sixth of January to mark this 12 months’s World Environmental Schooling Day. The episodes can be freely out there on the platform and instructor help supplies can be offered to combine these episodes.
WildlifeDirect, a non-profit group devoted to the conservation of Africa’s wildlife, can also be proud to announce the achievements of the Nature Optimistic Children Outreach Program. An extension of Nationwide Geographic’s “Group Sayari” academic leisure program, the Nature Optimistic Children Outreach program is designed to teach and encourage younger minds between the ages of seven and 12 in regards to the significance of wildlife conservation.
“Group Sayari”, a collaboration between the U.S. Division of State, the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID), The Walt Disney Firm Africa, and WildlifeDirect, noticed a 20-part tv sequence being aired throughout Africa on Nationwide Geographic Wild and Disney Channel. To encourage significant, impactful behavioural change in younger viewers throughout the continent and create the subsequent technology of environmental conservation leaders, “Group Sayari” moved from the small display screen to colleges and communities in East Africa in April 2023, with the Nature Optimistic Children Outreach Program.
By way of a sequence of outreach screening occasions, workshops, and nature-based actions, the Nature Optimistic Children Outreach Program goals to encourage a extra sustainable and accountable strategy to environmental stewardship. The Program has gained traction amongst younger audiences and educators, by instilling a ardour for wildlife conservation. To this point, the Nature Optimistic Children Outreach program has reached over 10,000 youngsters in 200 colleges in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania, garnering constructive suggestions from youngsters, academics, and oldsters alike.
This system has been instructing college youngsters in regards to the significance of preserving biodiversity and the fragile steadiness of ecosystems. This has impressed many college students to take part in numerous conservation actions. Because of this, 79 colleges have acquired small grants to implement totally different initiatives resembling tree-planting initiatives to revive landscapes, consciousness packages, group and college clean-up occasions, plastic recycling, and waste administration.
Recognizing the importance of linguistic variety, WildlifeDirect and its companions dubbed Group Sayari content material in each Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda. By utilizing Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda, Group Sayari was in a position to interact with extra communities, increasing the attain of this system, while facilitating a deeper understanding of conservation issues.
“With Nature Optimistic Children Outreach, “Group Sayari” goes past passive viewership by initiating interactive studying classes that reinforce the academic messages from every episode. Youngsters go to the assorted conservation hubs and Nationwide Parks and Reserves to deepen their information and understanding of wildlife conservation interactively and enjoyably. This multi-platform strategy ensures a holistic studying expertise past the tv display screen.” mentioned Dr. Paula Kahumbu, CEO of WildlifeDirect.
“Buoyed by the success of “Group Sayari”, we’re dedicated to increasing its attain and influence by offering high-quality academic programming that sparks curiosity and fosters a love for nature and wildlife. By instilling these values in younger minds, we hope to contribute to creating a technology acutely aware of the significance of wildlife conservation.” says Trish Sewe, Chief of Occasion of the mission.
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For extra details about WildlifeDirect and the Nature Optimistic Children Outreach Program, please go to https://wildlifedirect.org/ or contact:
For WildlifeDirect:
Naomi Kemei
naomi@wildlifedirect.org
For The Walt Disney Firm Africa:
c/o Jenny Griesel Communications
For the U.S. Division of State
The Bureau of Instructional and Cultural Affairs:
For USAID:
About The Walt Disney Firm EMEA:
The Walt Disney Firm has been in Europe, Center East and Africa (EMEA) for over 80 years and employs 1000’s throughout the area. Between Disneyland Paris and its different iconic manufacturers, together with Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Nationwide Geographic, twentieth Century Studios and ESPN, The Walt Disney Firm EMEA entertains, informs and evokes tens of millions of shoppers in additional than 130 international locations via the facility of unparalleled storytelling. Disney+, the corporate’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, is presently out there in 60 markets throughout EMEA.
About WildlifeDirect:
WildlifeDirect is internationally acknowledged as a excessive influence Kenyan primarily based group that seeks to alter hearts, minds and legal guidelines in order that Africa’s wildlife endures endlessly. The mission of WildlifeDirect is to attach folks to their wildlife and nature and encourage them to treasure it and act to preserve it. The group produces Wildlife Warriors, a preferred wildlife TV sequence about our wildlife heroes and heroines, and the animals that they’re saving. We intention to rework and catalyse the wildlife movie making business in Africa. The sequence is screened on nationwide TV in addition to in lecture rooms via the Wildlife Warriors Children conservation training program.
About USAID:
The U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) is the world’s premier worldwide growth company and a catalytic actor driving growth outcomes. By way of our cross-sectoral programming, USAID works to deal with the world’s most pressing wants, together with biodiversity conservation, training, and financial growth. USAID works to assist raise lives, construct communities, and advance democracy. USAID’s work advances U.S. nationwide safety and financial prosperity; demonstrates American generosity; and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience. President John. F. Kennedy created USAID by government order in 1961 to steer the U.S. authorities’s worldwide growth and humanitarian efforts.
About The U.S. Division of State
The U.S. Division of State leads America’s international coverage via diplomacy, advocacy, and help by advancing the pursuits of the American folks, their security, and financial prosperity. By way of its 270 diplomatic missions worldwide, the Division of State is dedicated to supporting public outreach efforts round key international coverage issues that assist construct peaceable relations between the folks of the US and other people of different international locations, in addition to advance U.S. international coverage and nationwide safety objectives.
The Bureau of Instructional and Cultural Affairs (ECA) mission is to extend mutual understanding between the folks of the US and the folks of different international locations by the use of academic and cultural alternate that assists within the growth of peaceable relations.