Culture clubs
Culture clubs are experiential learning activities by young people on culture through participation and training by the elders. The main aim is to reorient and cultivate proud, respectful, culturally grounded, visionary youth who are aware of themselves, their identity and practicing positive ethnicity. This is an initiative that nurtures young people to be the future custodians of their natural and cultural heritage in order to promote adaptive socio-cultural transformation in Northern Kenya. The club activities include experiential learning, culture clubs and inter-school forums, essay and art competitions on cultural issues, excursions, documentation, filming & video editing and cultural festivals. We strive to develop traditional knowledge banks in electronic and print forms from where current and future generations can retrieve their ancestral indigenous knowledge for cultural revival.
Experiential learning
Culture clubs are experiential learning activities by young people on culture through participation and training by the elders. The main aim is to reorient and cultivate proud, respectful, culturally grounded, visionary youth who are aware of themselves, their identity and practicing positive ethnicity. This is an initiative that nurtures young people to be the future custodians of their natural and cultural heritage in order to promote adaptive socio-cultural transformation in Northern Kenya. The club activities include experiential learning, culture clubs and inter-school forums, essay and art competitions on cultural issues, excursions, documentation, filming & video editing and cultural festivals. We strive to develop traditional knowledge banks in electronic and print forms from where current and future generations can retrieve their ancestral indigenous knowledge for cultural revival.
Cultural exhibition & collections
The Cultural exhibition and collections at the cultural center in Gotu is a permanent display and demonstrations on various pertinent topics on Northern Kenya. These includes among others; brief information on communities, way of life, food & nutrition, water, climate change, spirituality, art& craft, traditional healing methods, entertainment and wildlife.
Protection of sacred site & spirituality
Sacred natural sites have, since time immemorial, had a mysterious allure for billions of people around the world, playing significant spiritual role in the lives of individuals and communities. These sites consist of all types of natural features including mountains, hills, forests, rivers, lakes, caves, pilgrimage routes and even islands. Sacred natural sites are part of a broader set of cultural values that different social groups, traditions, beliefs or value systems attach to places and which fulfil humankinds need to understand, and connect in meaningful ways, to the environment of its origin and to nature Many of these sacred natural sites have been well protected over long periods of time and have seen low levels of disturbance.
Community land registration
Kivulini trust has carried out activities to secure pastoralists land tenure rights in Marsabit County. These activities include: ⦁ Awareness & sensitization on Community Land Act 2016 ⦁ Sensitizing communities on the benefit of the registered community land in securing their land right and control over their range land s resources. ⦁ Informed the traditional leaders on customary land dispute resolution process in order to establish harmony as in consensual approaches of conflict resolution around issues of inter community boundaries. ⦁ Creation of linkage between traditional leaders and county government for consultation on community land registration process. ⦁ Spatial planning and formation of permanent forum of community leaders to spearhead the registration process ⦁ Successfully registered Turbi community land members.
Our work with covid-19 emergency
The outbreak of Covid-19 created a global health crisis and economically ravaged already fraught indigenous communities of Northern Kenya. The lockdown imposed by the government restricted free movement of goods and ability to access far flung food markets which inflated prices of goods due to increase in demand. Kivulini Trust identified vulnerable households through local elders and chiefs and cushioned them with food items, sanitizers and masks. We also conducted awareness creation on Covid-19 and preventive measures such as social distancing and handwashing procedures. Modified jerrycans with soap sanitizers were put at strategic locations in the villages.
Women groups supported
Ltungai women Group have improved their livelihood status through adopting income generating activities such as selling of Beads, Bungles, Makutis (thatch) and sheep/goats. This effort has also improved knowledge transmission from old to younger generations as children are also taught on how to make beads, bungles and participate in songs and dances. The group through direct re-granting from Kivulini, facilitated a women and youth training on governance and their role in environmental conservation. They also taught children on traditional values and education, and early pregnancies. Gabbis women group invested in selling of packed traditional dry fried minced meat kocche to earn income for the group, poultry farming and bought more tents and chairs for hiring which is a major source of income for the group.