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Nairobi, Kenya, January 26, 2024 -We’re proud to announce the launch of the primary two episodes of the Crew Sayari on Nationwide Geographic Africa’s official YouTube Channel on the twenty sixth of January to mark this 12 months’s World Environmental Training Day. The episodes shall be freely accessible on the platform and instructor assist supplies shall be supplied to combine these episodes.
WildlifeDirect, a non-profit group devoted to the conservation of Africa’s wildlife, can be proud to announce the achievements of the Nature Optimistic Youngsters Outreach Program. An extension of Nationwide Geographic’s “Crew Sayari” instructional leisure program, the Nature Optimistic Youngsters 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.
“Crew Sayari”, a collaboration between the U.S. Division of State, the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID), The Walt Disney Firm Africa, and WildlifeDirect, noticed a 20-part tv collection 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, “Crew Sayari” moved from the small display screen to colleges and communities in East Africa in April 2023, with the Nature Optimistic Youngsters Outreach Program.
By way of a collection of outreach screening occasions, workshops, and nature-based actions, the Nature Optimistic Youngsters 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 Youngsters Outreach program has reached over 10,000 youngsters in 200 colleges in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania, garnering optimistic suggestions from youngsters, lecturers, and oldsters alike.
This system has been educating faculty 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 obtained small grants to implement totally different initiatives akin to tree-planting initiatives to revive landscapes, consciousness applications, neighborhood and faculty clean-up occasions, plastic recycling, and waste administration.
Recognizing the importance of linguistic range, WildlifeDirect and its companions dubbed Crew Sayari content material in each Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda. By utilizing Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda, Crew 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 Youngsters Outreach, “Crew Sayari” goes past passive viewership by initiating interactive studying periods that reinforce the tutorial messages from every episode. Kids go to the assorted conservation hubs and Nationwide Parks and Reserves to deepen their data and understanding of wildlife conservation interactively and enjoyably. This multi-platform strategy ensures a holistic studying expertise past the tv display screen.” stated Dr. Paula Kahumbu, CEO of WildlifeDirect.
“Buoyed by the success of “Crew Sayari”, we’re dedicated to increasing its attain and influence by offering high-quality instructional 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 Social gathering of the mission.
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For extra details about WildlifeDirect and the Nature Optimistic Youngsters 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 thousands and thousands of customers in additional than 130 nations by means of the facility of unparalleled storytelling. Disney+, the corporate’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, is presently accessible in 60 markets throughout EMEA.
About WildlifeDirect:
WildlifeDirect is internationally acknowledged as a excessive influence Kenyan based mostly group that seeks to vary hearts, minds and legal guidelines in order that Africa’s wildlife endures eternally. The mission of WildlifeDirect is to attach individuals to their wildlife and nature and encourage them to treasure it and act to preserve it. The group produces Wildlife Warriors, a well-liked wildlife TV collection about our wildlife heroes and heroines, and the animals that they’re saving. We purpose to remodel and catalyse the wildlife movie making trade in Africa. The collection is screened on nationwide TV in addition to in lecture rooms by means of the Wildlife Warriors Youngsters conservation schooling program.
About USAID:
The U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) is the world’s premier worldwide improvement company and a catalytic actor driving improvement outcomes. By way of our cross-sectoral programming, USAID works to handle the world’s most pressing wants, together with biodiversity conservation, schooling, and financial improvement. 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 govt order in 1961 to guide the U.S. authorities’s worldwide improvement and humanitarian efforts.
About The U.S. Division of State
The U.S. Division of State leads America’s overseas coverage by means of diplomacy, advocacy, and help by advancing the pursuits of the American individuals, 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 overseas coverage issues that assist construct peaceable relations between the individuals of america and other people of different nations, in addition to advance U.S. overseas coverage and nationwide safety targets.
The Bureau of Instructional and Cultural Affairs (ECA) mission is to extend mutual understanding between the individuals of america and the individuals of different nations via instructional and cultural alternate that assists within the improvement of peaceable relations.
