Members' Achievements

GREENING A NAIROBI HIGHWAY City Trees for People and Nature in East Africa

MCC Member Cathy Watson, who works at ICRAF (World Agroforestry), is appealing to Members to support her neighbourhood “Greening a Nairobi Highway” project. This is a community effort to re-green a stretch of the Redhill-Waiyaki Way Bypass, which after its completion, was left looking very carved up and raw.

Cathy at the start of her Highway Greening project in March 2021 (left) and with the same Meru Oak tree in March 2022.

Now with the rains here, Cathy is asking Members to donate any plants and cuttings that they may have spare in their garden. Everything is welcome, especially mulch and manure, which is vital for improving the sub-soil that was exposed during the building of the road.

Cathy’s team is on the Bypass every Saturday and can receive any mulch, manure or plants. Or you can simply leave your contribution on the right hand side at the top of Peponi Road just as it joins the roundabout on Redhill-Waiyaki Way

Bypass.

Cathy has planted over 40 different species of tree along her stretch of Bypass, which with two sides, slip roads and access roads and a roundabout, covers about 3 km.

As well as beautifying the road, Cathy is making it pleasant for walkers with shade trees, grassed areas and flowers, creating a natural haven for flora and fauna. Already tree frogs and over 20 species of bird have been spotted, some birds already nesting in the trees.

Numerous MCC Members and others have donated towards the greening. Cathy and her husband William Pike also fund it to help pay their ‘carbon debt’ for long distance flights.

Any donations, Mpesa (0728-608 693) contributions, or volunteers to help with the maintenance of the green highway - especially litter collection and weeding - are most welcome. Just no invasive species please!

For more information contact Cathy on c.watson@cgiar.org

The rains are coming!

Donate plants to the Redhill-Waiyaki Link Road!

We welcome aloes, hibiscus, salvia, agapanthus, bulbine, red hot pokers, cannas, grasses, sisal and any plant except

invasives like prickly pear and lantana! Compost and manure urgently needed too.

When: Saturdays from 8am

Where: At roundabout where Peponi Rd joins the link road

Come and we will show you around!