Laudato Si Workshop at Rongo University
Rongo University College is one of the public universities in Homabay County. It offers diversified courses inclusive of environmental studies. Many young people do not understand the implications of environmental studies to the needs and interests of their local communities. Environmental problems have become increasingly difficult to understand and evaluate…
Visit to Kakamega Diocese
Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) on appointment visited Bishop Joseph Obanyi of the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega Diocese on third of August, 2018. Led by CYNESA’s Founding Executive Director Allen Ottaro, the Programs Manager David Munene, Hellen Mugo and Celestine Otieno of the CYNESA secretariat. The…
Lomami, a Tourist Park in the Heart of the DR Congo
This year, young people from CYNESA-DR Congo focused their actions and researches on the discovery and highlighting of some National Parks of the DR Congo to make them more accessible to the general public. Two National Parks’ Managers have offered this opportunity to them through a three month internship training….
CYNESA Meets the Bishop of Homabay Diocese in Effort to Promote Laudato Si
“The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’ 13). In living the appeal by Pope Francis I “to bring the whole human family together”,…
CYNESA in Homa Bay Diocese
The CYNESA team in Kenya was in the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay from July 28-31 2018, with a mission to meet young people and share the messages of Laudato Si and care for creation. The team members visiting Homa Bay were David Munene, Hellen Mugo and Celestine Otieno.
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.