Pillar 05
Climate Leadership & Green Skills
Climate action lasts when people can lead it.
We build the knowledge, skills and confidence people need to lead and sustain climate action.
Furaha & Baraka Farms (FBF) runs the Green Scholars Programme, a climate leadership and green skills pathway for young people aged 12 to 24 in Kenya: eco-clubs and bootcamps in schools, micro forests, debates and climate innovation challenges, and field placements for university students. It is practical and hands-on, designed to complement Kenya's Competency-Based Curriculum, and sits alongside FBF's training for communities, farmer groups and field teams in restoration and digital monitoring.
- 89Grade 9 learners in the ARISE bootcamp pilot, Kilifi County
- +36 ptsrise in learners conversant with the topics (51% to 87%)
- 110trees planted to start a school micro forest
What we deliver
- FBF's ECO Clubs training curriculum and learner workbook
- Seven modules, from stewardship to climate technology
- Journals, portfolios and a certificate of completion
- Climate leadership and environmental stewardship
- Life skills, ethics, money and careers
- Tree planting to finish
- Native seedlings from FBF nurseries
- Planting with learners and teachers
- Care by the school eco-club
- Debates and seminars
- Inter-school climate innovation exhibitions
- Inter-university green-skills challenges (proposed)
- Nurseries and mangrove restoration sites
- Drone flights and the Furaha Baraka App
- Carbon and community benefit-sharing
- Nursery, planting and aftercare
- Field data collection and mapping
- Regenerative farming and small enterprise
The Green Scholars journey
- Schools
- Universities
- Communities
- Farmer groups
- Field teams
- Young people
Programme in action
Climate Leadership & Future Readiness Bootcamp
In August and September 2026, FBF and the ARISE Foundation ran a five-day after-school bootcamp for all 89 Grade 9 learners at Gongoni Comprehensive School, in the Vipingo Special Economic Zone, Kilifi County.
Learners worked in ten teams through six modules: climate leadership and environmental stewardship; leadership and responsible citizenship; life skills; ethics, integrity and personal values; financial literacy and entrepreneurship; and career pathways. Sessions were hands-on: compound walks to record what they saw, role plays on real dilemmas, group budgets and subject-to-career matching. Knowledge rose from 51% of learners conversant with the topics before the bootcamp to 87% after. At the close, every learner, teacher and facilitator planted a tree: 110 in all, the start of a school micro forest that the learners have committed to care for.
- learners
- 89
- average daily attendance
- 87%
- topic conversance
- 51% → 87%
- trees planted
- 110
Source: ARISE Foundation × FBF bootcamp report, September 2026.
For partners
What working with us on green skills looks like
- What it is
- The Green Scholars Programme for ages 12 to 24, plus practical skills training for communities, farmer groups and field teams.
- What to expect
- A conversation about the group and the outcome you want, then a proposed programme, partners on the ground and how progress will be recorded.
- What you gain
- Participants who can do the work, not just attend: skills practised in the field, activities logged in our app, and follow-up after training ends.
- The wider contribution
- Climate action that lasts because local people can lead it, caring for restored land and running the nurseries and businesses behind it.
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