News - Tag: Kenya

Laikipia Highlands Games

Education, Sport and Segera—the teaming up of vital links in the Laikipia community

Segera is in the process of developing learning opportunities on the retreat that engage students in conservation and wildlife awareness, both within the classroom and in the field.

from left to right: Nzoika Waita, Safaricom Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs; Samuel Eto'o; Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Jochen Zeitz, Founder of the Zeitz Foundation. Credits: Zeitz Foundatio

‘Laikipia and Beyond Unity Cup’ football tournament launch

On January 6th 2010, Jochen Zeitz launched the Zeitz Foundation’s ‘Laikipia and Beyond Unity Cup’ football tournament, in Nairobi, Kenya. The press conference, full to the brim with journalists, saw Samuel Eto’o, who was in the country with the Cameroonian team training for the Africa Cup of Nations, named Patron of the Unity Cup.

Laikipia and Beyond Unity Cup logo

Kicking for the Long Run - 21 July Finals

So far, over 12,000 people in Laikipia, Kenya, have received free medical treatment at the camps run at each football match, nearly 1,000 trees have been planted and thousands of people have been involved in environmental activities - the Laikipia and Beyond Unity Cup (LUC) football tournament comes to a close on 21&22 July.