NELBEM - History

We are located in Njoro Division, Nakuru District Rift Valley Province in Kenya. People living in Nessuit Location are poor peasant farmers who are all victims of former tribal clashes of 1992 and 1997 during the introduction of Multi-Party in Kenya.

The history of this entire project came after the patron, who is a local resident, Mr Weldon Korir, got an inspiration after attending a seminar on sustainable development programme offered by Tilburg University of Netherlands in conjunction with Tilburg Business School and Sustainable Challenge Foundation.

He took the next step, which most people in developing countries do not do after attending such a wonderful course. He started putting into practice what he learned and by so doing started a consultancy centre to collaborate with CBO on development issues in rural areas. All his efforts resulted in a Community Based Organisation to be able to run those programmes from the ground and hence NEBLEM was born. NELBEM is the initials of Nessuit, Bee keeping, Livestock and Environmental Management. These are small programs since they do not have big support from external donors and we are hopeful that one day we shall get support to help the programmes in place expand.

NELBEM has a small consulting centre which is the mother of all ideas in place, it is called "RURAL ECONOMIC RESOURCE CENTRE" and with special focus on sustainable development for small scale farmers, which means all the social institutions within the rural setting can be converted to become sources of economically viable projects for economic sustainability by the local people.

Among the projects under the Nelbem centre are the following:

  • Beekeeping in rural areas (Nessuit-Njoro)
  • Dairy Farming - small scale (SEND A COW MODEL - Uganda)
  • Friends of Lake Nakuru conservation
  • Youth Programme for Social Development (Aids awareness/drugs abuse)
  • Promoting girl child education in rural areas
  • Tree Nursery (need funds for Piping from the river)
  • Sigaon Primary School-Njoro, improvement programme

All the above projects are aimed at improving the standards of living for the poor rural people and to conserve the nature to benefit both humans and animals.