Climate change, poverty and human health are some of the most prominent issues affecting the international community. In our community we consider human health as the most important of them. If one is not healthy, he or she can not be able to fight poverty, hunger, malnutrition or climate change etc.

Our community is a rural area that faces all these problems and need a lot of care and sensitization to solve them. Poverty characterizes our community since agriculture is the only economic activity highly practiced and this is done locally giving low yields.

CAMGEW created a vocational training center with objective to change the lives of children, women and the entire population of the local community by providing vocational skill to community members. CAMGEW VTC department of shoe making had an innovative idea of recycling worn out car tires into shoes for children and the community as a whole. Tire which is non-biodegradable is used to recycle into usable items like shoes for school children and the population at large. Car tires are not environmentally friendly since it cannot degrade. Even if burnt, it can only provide pollution to air which contributes to insulation blanket that leads to global warming and climate change.

These shoes because they are durable reduce poverty as family disposable incomes are preserved. We in the local environment with high poverty, low standards of living, food crisis, see the need to support this initiative of CAMGEW. It solves our problems since it trains the young who are mostly school drop outs, and women to earn a living and as such improve on their livelihoods. Above all our environment is kept healthy. Other communities can imitate this initiative.