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BEST PRACTICE By Jeremy Leariwala Mara Day Celebration, an annual event that is dedicated to the conservation of the Mara River, is observed by the East African Community (EAC) on 15 th September. The event brings together environment conservation enthusiasts within the EAC; more so, those within Kenya and Tanzania-where the bulk of the Mara Ecosystem is found. For the year 2022, the theme of the event was: Towards Sustainable Mara River Ecosystem! Several groups (Conservation stakeholders) converged in Nakuru-Kenya, to celebrate this day. Personally, I was fascinated by FOMAWA (Friends of Mau Watershed) with their presentations. For over twenty years now, the group-FOMAWA-has endeavoured to preserve the Mau Watershed. With the two decades’ experience this group has identified the best practices of tree planting, and it has adopted a simple concept for disseminating that information too. With the help of well-wishers and people/organizations of goodwill, FOMAWA partners wit...

  MY PRIESTS, MY WRITING By Jeremy Leariwala Someone said, ‘show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.’ Another one, still, said, ‘you are what you read and what you think.’ Well, I found myself toying with these statements in my mind and remembered my priests. During my childhood, late 70s, unlike the case today, almost all the learning institutions, around my home, were church-owned-and-managed. From nursery schools all the way to technical schools. We attended these schools and, due to their roles in management, priests were among the common people we interacted with on a day to day basis. First, from them, we learnt quite a lot: the meaning of celibacy, service to the church and that Jesus NEVER disappoints. Secondly, they supplied our schools with books-lots of books, and they made sure that we watched, at least, one cinema every Saturday. The books and movies ‘transported’ us to the outside world, gave us a glimpse of what we didn’t know those days and broa...

THE WOMAN. When God created Adam, He gave him his image and likeness, Then he decided to give him a helper. God created the woman (Eve), a tender, Lovely piece of beauty she was. He put them together in his Eden Garden. The woman would carry generations, By nurturing them in her womb! Adam would build homes, Eve would hold the homes together, In a strong bond named ‘The Family’. Eve, an endearing partner she became. But today, man has forgotten much, The woman altered to a News item. A cruel murder of a wife here, A barbaric strike of another wife there, Another doused in corrosive acid afar, Or inconceivably tortured elsewhere! What happened to his love? Why scratch the skin of such beauty? Why kill an irresistible helper? Can wives bother by nagging? Yes! Husbands have the strength to endure, Or brains to decode a bickering woman! Quitting a relationship sounds impossible, But, wife battering, maiming or killing...