☆The 3rd anniversary of GBN’s foundation!☆

Hello everyone!

Greeting from Global Bridge Network(GBN).

I am pleased to announce that GBN is now in its third year.

Please review the 2018 annual report.⇩

H30_Annual Report

As international support, our ongoing project on “Improvement of Educational Environment for Girls” in Uganda is fully underway and a new product, the reusable sanitary pad“Happy Pad”, is now available to expand the number of girls who can go to school during menstruation.

Reusable Sanitary Pad ’Happy Pad’

Everyone is Happy with ’Happy Pad’’

In addition, the “Environmental Protectionand Education” program involves environmental protection efforts through lemon grass growing and essential oil production, and is also proceeding. In addition, we have started the production of briquette charcoal, which is an environmentally friendly product made of organic waste and which can avoid emitting smoke in the atmosphere. 

Briquette Charcoal

Please take a look at the following video clips created during my field visi last year.

🎥→Happy Pad Project

🎥→Lemon Grass Project

I am also pleased to announce that Hadijah, a program manager from our partner NGO SORAK, arrived in Japan from Uganda to attend the Rural Leaders Training Program (9 months) at the Asia RuralInstitute in Nasu Shiobara, Japan. 

Hadijah at the Asia Rural Institute

GBN supported her application to the best of our ability, and she is now (June 2019) actively learning new methods of agriculture and eager to expand organic methods in Uganda after this program. GBN is also willing to continue supporting her and her future plan to apply what she learnt in Japan to the agricultural field in Uganda.

I also appreciate ECS Co., for which I am currently working, for introducing GBN on their website as a CSR activity →　CSR page

As we mark our third fiscal year, we welcome any new members and are pleased if you are interested as a volunteer in joining us.

Thank you very much for your support and cooperation.

Global Bridge Network

Maiko Ohnishi

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【Environmental Protection】Support quarterly surveillance on laws and regulations of environmental protection

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Regarding ‘Environmental Protection through Expanding Lemon grass growing and Education in Uganda’, this is the fourth report of 2nd year of this project.

The district environment officer monitoring with file a damage of the wetland

This time, ‘2.4 Activity Support quarterly surveillance by environmental officers on laws and regulations of environmental protection formulated in year 1’ were started from June 2018. This quarterly surveillance is conducted total 4 times.

 

Activities:

・    Conducting on site visits to wetlands and checking any human activity therein.

・    Taking measurements with the community to show them wetland boundaries. This would enable them now the limit of their farming or any other activities.

・    Informing the wetland users and neighbors of the acceptable and non-acceptable activities in wetlands.

・    Investigating other activities include tree planting in upland communities in Bagezza seed secondary school.

  

Fauna-Uganda crested crane, birds are threatened by the maize crop

team and community measuring the extent of wetland encroachment 

SORAK ED waters a tree after planting in remembrance of the surveillance

Outcomes:

Ø  Police together with district officers promised to print out copies of regulations for environment protection and display in Community Centers.

Ø  Police promised to monitor any violation of laws of environment protection and assured that culprits will be brought to face charges/ punishments.

Ø  Some sites visited welcomed the idea and responded by planting trees as a sign of supporting the idea of surveillance and continued protection of our environment. For example, at Bagezza seed secondary where 5 trees were planted.

You can find the details in the reports below,

Activity 2.4 Support quarterly surveillance on laws and regulations of environmental protection

*This project is supported by Japan Fund for Global Environment of the Environmental Restoration (JFGE) and by Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA)

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【Environmental Protection】Train children environmental protection activists in monitoring and reporting of environmental abuse

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Regarding ‘Environmental Protection through Expanding Lemon grass growing and Education in Uganda’, this is the fourth report of 2nd year of this project.

This time, ‘Activity 1.8 Train 160 children environmental protection activists in monitoring and reporting of environmental abuse’ were carried out on Sep 2018.

Children demonstrating the effects of environmental degradation
through a short drama

The environmental protection activist’s trainings were attended by 40 children selected from different schools and total participants are 160 children. 

The activity was provided children with the existing laws and regulations concerning environmental protection as well as the trained children would later become activists who could monitor and report environmental abuse deteriorated due to human activities. They would later grow in responsible for making environment alert and becoming environmentally friendly citizens.

Activities:

• Trained the children as environmental protection activists in monitoring and reporting environmental abuse such as the careless and irresponsible activities of human beings like bush burning, bad waste disposal, deforestation, and wetland misuse.
• Trained the children to follow up the progress of environmental activities by the environmental protection clubs formed in other 16 schools.
• Trained the children on school and community based environmental conservation to take lead on tree and lemon grass planting in the future.
• Informed the children their role towards environmental conservation including raising awareness about environmental protection in public and schools to cover issues related to water, air, waste reduction and recycling, as well as biodiversity.

Children trained into environmental protection①

Children trained into environmental protection②

Children trained into environmental protection③

Outcomes:

Ø  Environmental walks by environmental protection activists were carried out by Mungungulu P/S activists and this has led to reduced cutting down of trees in Baggezza sub-county.

Ø  Reported cases of environmental abuse at sub counties by children environmental protection activists  have led to reduce encroachment on wetlands in Kigando Sub county

Ø  Children started participating in routine environmental clean ups with local leaders.

You can find the details in the reports below,

Activity 1.8 Train children in monitoring&reporting of environmental abuse

*This project is supported by Japan Fund for Global Environment of the Environmental Restoration (JFGE) and by Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA)

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