Introductions first. We are a group of three girls living in
Kenya, awesome country, right? Like the
power puff girls, we are trying to keep Kenya awesome, hoping that this
initiative will spread widely across and we can all be awesome because A is for
awesome.
Awesome is not what the A in our name stands for though. It
stands for Animals. We realized the scary rate at which we are losing our wildlife
especially due to poaching. Yes, there are other problems like wildfires,
logging and other natural causes but let’s face it. It’s POACHING. In short, we
are the same people responsible for losing our Awesomeness.
We are young. I am seventeen while Njeri and Mercy are
nineteen. I am not ashamed of my age. It is just a number. We are teenagers and
half of the time, teenagers have no clue what they are talking about. But if you think age is a limiting factor to
our ability to solve issues we are facing in the country, ask Innovate Kenya. Innovate Kenya was the organization that made us who we are right now because
they, like me, believe that age is just a number.
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| From left, Tracy Wankio,Mercy Chepkoech, Duncan Karani and Joyce Njeri at the Innovate Kenya Camp 2013 |
This project began last year when we were seventeen, when we
had tons of growing up to do. I would not say we are there yet considering the
amount of fights we have like what the color of this blog should be. Anyway, we are who we are and if we were not
who we are, I doubt we would be able to come up with this crazy idea of putting
up motion sensors in parks.
One thing we realized about crazy ideas though, is that they
get people’s attention. People will try to convince you how insane you are. The
more people try to oppose you, the more you try to convince them that they are
wrong and you realize that they are probably right. But why should they be
right? So you research, scratch your head and ask yourself tons of questions
until it finally works out and you realize that you got this. I guess that was
what kept us moving and on our toes. I could say we almost gave up at some
point but I would not say that.
This blog is about all that. It has both professional and
non-professional material. It is basically about who we are, why we are who we
are, our solution and how we are moving forward which is the main focus right
now.
By Tracy Wankio
