Dandora community was established in the year 1995 and later registered in the year 2001 as a network known us Traditional Healthcare Integration Network(THIN).The provision of health services country-wide was and is still inadequate. Among problems that have emerged are:

o Increasing pressure on public sector financial resources not only for expanding health facilities and services but also in responding to increasing demands arising from high population growth rate.

o An inadequate spatial distribution of health services in the country due to low community participation in some areas and the difficult physical environments obtained in the arid and semi-arid areas.

o Shortage of manpower and management expertise for the running of health services.

o A low level of hospital operational efficiency epitomized by a more than 100 percent bed-occupancy rate co-existing with high cost per in-patient per day; and;

Lack of public information and education which would guide the people themselves to develop the competence in meeting the basic requirements of good health. The Dandora community is situated at Embakasi Division,Nairobi province in Kenya.Overpopulation has lad to emerging of other informal settlements concentrated on illegal public lands such as; along the railway line,public playing grounds have also been grabbed and some have gone to an extend of settling along and below high voltage powerline.Nairobi river that used to be is no more because or illegal settlements that have been put up diverting the water now sewer to their small gardens for irrigation.Diseases, hunger, and poverty are among the most formidable challenges in our societies. Yet, the achievement of physical and mental well-being of the people is crucial to human development.

Healthcare, Medicine, Food, Water and Income. Every Kenyan deserves them. Every child, youth, woman and man needs them.
But I know millions of people in Kenya desperately short of the five. They and their families, communities are inhabitants of rural and sub-urban areas. And I can tell you that, by any time you reach them, they have very little with them. They are weak, skinny, emaciated and hopeless. They are suffering from multiple diseases – malaria, nutrition, HIV/AIDS and ophthalimia among others. And the stress in their lives makes the youth, men and women sink into anti social behaviour. Their girls and women become unsafe and turn to prostitution whereas the boys and men migrate to urban areas with breaking inflation.
Without prompt donations from rich nations, malnutrition rolls and vulnerability soars, and donors end up paying more for food airlifts and therapeutic feeding programmes. The cost of suffering and dying is expensive, leading to trauma and agony. The cost of funerals and caring for orphans makes it difficult for families to cope. Lack of food and medicines means
the diseases kill faster and the combination of HIV/AIDS and hunger pushes families deeper into poverty. The number of the sick and starving is increasing everyday. Crime in dandora community is high because most of the youth are employed and are actively engaged in drug use andabuse.A bigger challenge awaits the Dandora Community members and kenyans in general this is because, since all the garbage in Nairobi is dumbed at Dandora site. This has posed a major health hazard.Politicians have all the years used this dumping site to gain political mileages during campaigns. Most of them have on several occations promised to relocate the site but this seems quite a deam since most companies that transports this wastes are owned by the same politicians.
Our Local representative is Mr.Nahashon Sadat. Curently he is liasing with the community by sensitizing them using innovative ways of maximizing use of local information and knowledge.
Environmetal Education Project.
Although science has long recognized that all the factors, Benin, or, malignant, which man encounters in all facets of the environment combine to produce a total effect on his physical and mental health, we have too long attempted to deal with them as though these effects were infact, separate and unrelated.

Indeed we have sometimes seemed to view man as outside the ecological system and to deal with various factors in the environment as though they were merely problems of the planetary property management. In truth, man, whatever else he/she may be, is part of nature, whose life is dependant upon the delicate balance within the ecological system of which he is part.

This scheme gives an overview of what Environmental Health Concern Programme of THIN organization is doing to bring by helping citizens embrace clean development mechanisms change in the Kenya’s development efforts; and to fill the gaps that call for mutual efforts.
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.

INTRODUCTION
To-day our nation is facing an environmental and ecological crisis which is being recognized as one of the major problems of our time. There are all forms of environmental degradation and pollution. A soaring population, urbanization, unplanned settlements, agriculture, and infrastructure has led to destruction of natural resources. Fantastic advances in science and technology and the mistakes of our past have produced biological, radiological and chemical contaminations of land, air, food and water, crowding noise and many other threats of human health and well being. And, the disruptions of ecological balances have come to the fore as a major international problem.

Mans survival depends on an infinitely complex system of relationships and balances among countless living organisms, existing in or on the extremity thin crust of the earth, or just before it. The system has remarkable capacity for adaptation and regeneration, but nature’s patience has a limit. If the current trends continue, the future of life on earth is endangered.

Now various aspects of the problem must engage the attention of interest groups in many diverse fields – Conservation, agriculture, transportation, urban planning, industry, commerce, health, consumer protection and others.

Environmental Health Concern Programme is one of the eight programmes of Traditional Healthcare Integration Network (THIN), a non – governmental, non – political, non – profit making, and development - oriented organization, registered in Kenya under Healthcare Critaria.
THIN organization has integrated but functional programmes designed in partnership participation of local people supporting empowerment and socio – economic development using healthcare delivery and promotion strategies as a positive receptacle for them.
Expected outputs
Health and disease of man and of the community in which he lives depend upon the interactions with physical, biological, lifestyle and social environment. THINS Environmental Concern Programme aims to contribute to clean and healthy environment that will bring about and contribute to Primary Healthcare (PHC) strategies, or preventive and curing of disease pathogens and agents of man, his crops, his livestock and natures’ services;

ECP will help to limit emissions and pollution of the earths atmosphere, whose results are weather and climate change, acid rain, ozone layer destruction, drought, floods, all of which affect men and other living things;

However, the EHCP is providing a sound foundation for the stakeholders, especially women and children and youth, industrialists, commerce transporters, producers, among others to participate in projects that address local environmental problems.

Kenyan women are primarily responsible for farming, accompanied by children and youth, both in terms of their labour contribution (nearly double that of men) and making decisions. In 50% of the cases they make agricultural and environmental decisions on their own, and about 20% they participate in joint decision making. As primary procurers of firewood, fodder, they play an important role in the use and misuse of natural resources.
The youth and children are still young susceptible and easy to persuade. They are also future leaders who will make important decisions.

The industrialists are the major users of environmental services and products and the major polluters of the environment. They need to be sensitized to monitor and regulate their levels of natural resources and biodiversity use and limit or discard their levels of pollution.