By VOM Newsroom
Gerald Nkusi, a travel ecopreneur with Adventure Afrika and founder of Home of Kigezi, a Museum of Living Culture and Natural History is a strong believer of making the earth a better place through ecological restoration, youth Livelihood and women empowerment.
While speaking recently at a Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) conference held in Nairobi, Kenya themed, ‘A New Vision for Earth’ Nkusi implored the world to join the Food Forest Africa movement as one of the ways of ensuring a sustainable way of adapting to the global climate change crisis.
Nkusi further urged Africa and Global leaders who were present to begin revolutionizing the use of small and waste spaces for food, health, education and environment to help counter food insecurity, poor nutrition, and the degradation of our landscapes and other resources.
His roots and home are in Kisoro district which is part of the Kigezi region in Uganda started out as a waiter trading long nights of work for education at the famous Makerere University in 2006.
In 2017, he had the opportunity to become a US Exchange Alumni-IVLP where he managed to transform the conservation space both locally and internationally.
For one whole month, Nkusi worked with four secondary schools in Kisoro district.
Nkusi and his colleague Bruce, both US exchange Alumni’s, won an award and managed to implement a Sustainable Agricultural Development and Value-Addition Opportunities project in the Virunga Foothills of Kisoro, Uganda.
Under the project, they managed to impart valuable life skills to students and their patrons in Bee keeping, coffee value chain, sustainable growing of medicinal herbs and trees for their own use and for economic purposes as well as exposing them to unlimited opportunities in sustainable agriculture and entrepreneurship.
The tutelage under Nkusi and his Food Forest Africa movement inspired the students belonging to Wildlife and agricultural clubs from Seseme Girls Secondary School, Kisoro Vision Secondary School, Gisorora Secondary School and St Gertrude’s Secondary School.
Learners vowed to start their own agricultural projects at their different schools and take the lessons they have learnt back to their homes to conserve the environment and raise money to run their own agribusiness initiatives.
The 2023 UN Conference of Parties taking place between November 30th to December 12th, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) will comprise key issues that require the younger generations to embrace.
Kisoro Vision Deputy Director Booker Hakizumwami said the time for procrastination is over.
Pursuing a Masters in Environment and Natural Resources Management, Booker says the world needs us to wake up to the realities of Climate Change.
He mentions the Youth as being the potential solution to agricultural crises and advised them to act now rather than waiting for things to get worse.
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