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about Nature for Kids
Nature for Kids uses film / TV to create environmental awareness among children growing up in the poorer regions of the world. The NFK edutainment programmes transmit the basic knowledge and values that will enable both young people and the place where they live to prosper.
These are not just documentaries; they are exciting, 20- minute-long screenplays featuring local schoolchildren and their parents, narrated in their native language. A programme of tailor-made films with accompanying interactive teaching material, tackling important environmental issues such as overgrazing, water management, resource efficiency, deforestation, endangered species and more. The films are produced by – and star – a local cast and crew.
To date five films have been produced in Africa. Since 2006 mobile School TV team from NfK has visited over 140 schools in Northern Tanzania, enabling more than 70,000 children to view and benefit from the NfK program. NfK materials are also being used by local partners in Tanzania, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda. To date more than 400,000 children have seen NfK’s innovative materials. All films and educational packs are produced in the native/local language, whether Swahili, English or Rutooro.
This interactive and innovative approach to environmental learning is universal in appeal. NfK’s mission is to roll out these materials and programmes to other locations and countries in the future.
