CYNESA Summit 2017: Faster, Further, Together.
2017 has been a phenomenal year for the CYNESA family, capped by a successful 4-day summit in Nairobi, in the final week of November. It was such an honour to welcome to our second summit, colleagues from 6 of our 8 chapters – Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Kenya and South…
St. Martin de Porres Youth in Soweto Pedge Laudato Si’ Action
The youth of St. Martin de Porres parish, Soweto and the Jesuit Social Apostolate of South Africa, joined forces to organize a dialogue and discussion on The Care Of Our Common Home. The workshop that took place on the 30th of September at St. Martin de Porres church, in Orlando…
The Multi-Faith Women Leaders’ Advocacy Training On Proper Waste Management In Mombasa County-Kenya.
CYNESA held a training workshop on proper waste management between July 1st and July 2nd, 2017, at the Reef Hotel in Mombasa. The training brought together about forty women leaders drawn from different faiths including Christians, Muslims and Brahma Kumaris. A number of speakers facilitated sessions covering different aspects of…
International Engagements
We are proud to call Africa home. The nature of our mission, however, makes it imperative for us to engage with global partners. There has been plenty of action on this front in the last few months. Towards the end of 2016, CYNESA became one of the newest partners of…
No Killing, No Trading; Tuokoe Tembo Wetu
Tanzania has the third largest elephant population in Africa with about 54,000 elephants while Botswana leads with about 133,000 elephants. Surges in poaching and illegal ivory trade have put African elephant populations at risk. During last year’s CoP17 of CITES in Johannesburg, South Africa, delegates adopted a resolution which recommends…
CYNESA's Mission is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa, respond to the twin challenges of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.