{"id":6747,"date":"2019-11-22T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"how-ugandan-helps-pupils-to-secure-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/22\/how-ugandan-helps-pupils-to-secure-their-future\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ugandan Helps Pupils To Secure Their Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya lost\nfive per cent of forest cover between 1990 and 2005, an average of 12,600\nhectares per year, due to human settlement and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Tobiko-extends-logging-ban\/1056-5357104-x76lbcz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegal logging<\/a>, media reports\nsay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is such\nstatistics that led Joseph Masembe, a Ugandan law graduate and business\nmarketing consultant, to venture into conservation work. He founded \u201cLittle\nHands Go Green\u201d in Uganda in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Masembe\nshares his philanthropic journey and the plans he has for Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI grew up\nin Kololo, Uganda, which was reserved for settlement in Kampala and was exposed\nto nature. I could say that this inspired me to do something to stop the\ndisappearance of the country\u2019s trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I studied\nlaw at Kingston University in London but decided not to practice. I became a\nbusiness marketing consultant instead, but still I never felt fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, I had noticed the environment losing its green print day after day. I knew that the negative effects could only be felt after a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Students-help-conserve-environment--forests\/1056-5357202-tupmmvz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Kenya lost five per cent of forest cover between 1990 and 2005, an average of 12,600 hectares per year, due to human settlement and&nbsp;illegal logging, media reports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}