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Lwanda Community Educators is a lay organization that works in western Kenya with the aim of transforming the communities through education and training. We are a no-profit making entity and most of our trainings are facilitated by community based projects which we initiate to provide income to the poor members of our communities.  The Problem There are two major threats to humankind today: the loss of biodiversity and the loss of traditional knowledge about biodiversity. Both are issues of utmost importance. Any species that becomes extinct is an option for medicine, food, genes, etc., lost forever. Cultures with vast knowledge of their plant resources also are threatened by extinction because of acculturation. The traditional knowledge of plants has provided our modern society with medicines, food, industrial materials and many other advantages that we take for granted. Ethnobotanical research is providing fundamental information in the search for new drugs, foods, pesticides, natural products, genes and all kinds of chemicals. Ethnobotanical data provides an extraordinary diversity of important questions for botanical, ecological and anthropological research.  We are building public – private, individual partnerships that mobilize resources, strengthen ideas, technologies; to international cooperation; and help communities build their institutional capacity to manage these problems and free their imaginations. The meek to achieve their dreams. Indeed we have to do this all our life. While these social and environmental problems are daunting, ample experience at international and national level demonstrates that progress is possible through concerned efforts. Traditional and Cultural Values Blended into science and technology advances offer hope and answers |
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