St. Martin Kaewa Secondary School, Machakos, beat their rivals to emerge the winners of phase I of the schools Green Initiative Challenge and win the coveted prize of a fully paid for educational trip to Mombasa.

The three-day trip saw 30 students and their teachers visit our very own Kipevu Power Station, the largest diesel plant in East Africa, where they learnt about thermal power generation and also received career advice from KenGen engineers who showed them around the plant.

St. Martin Kaewa students feed resident giraffes at Bamburi’s Haller Park during their trip to Mombasa.

The GIC winners next visited the world-renown bastion of conservation, Haller Park, which our project partner Bamburi Cement trans-formed from a quarry wasteland to an environmental park with diverse plant and animal species. Today the park stands as a beacon of successful environmental management and land reclamation with a high score of corporate social responsibility.

The students also visited Fort Jesus, the main tourist attraction in the Coastal city with a rich history of the colonial and slavery period, and the famous Mama Ngina drive, which boasts a picturesque scenic seafront, measuring about three kilometers, long and is one of the most breathtaking parks found in the humid Mombasa Island.