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Various close ups of ecopencils2. Mid of people sorting pencils3. Sign reading (in English) \"Ecopencil Producers\", tilt down to workers arriving carrying old newspapers4. Workers carrying old newspapers5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNgong, Kenya - 9 December 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various close ups of ecopencils\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of people sorting pencils\u003cbr/\u003e3. Sign reading (in English) \"Ecopencil Producers\", tilt down to workers arriving carrying old newspapers\u003cbr/\u003e4. Workers carrying old newspapers\u003cbr/\u003e5. Managing director of Ecopencil, Davies Saiyanka Ole Kareso sorting pencils\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Davies Saiyanka Ole Kareso, Managing director of Ecopencil :\u003cbr/\u003e\"The need that I saw in the society basically here in Africa is that we normally cut down trees carelessly without thinking about the repercussions. I got a lot of inspiration from Wangari Maathai (the late 2004 Nobel winner) who had worked very hard in conserving the environment here in Kenya and after visiting her foundation, her Green Belt movement I got a lot of inspiration in that if I could come up with a novel idea  basically now using the waste news print paper i would actually be helping the environment.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of pencils\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Davies Saiyanka Ole Kareso, Managing director of Ecopencil :\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our pencils are normally labour intensive so at least we would be killing two birds with one stone in the sense that we are creating employment for the youth, for the people who are unemployed and also conserving the environment.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of worker cutting the waste news paper prints into size of the pencil lead \u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of worker putting glue on the graphite, sticking it on to the paper\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of worker putting paper and lead into a machine that rolls it together\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of rolled news paper with lead being put into pot where it is treated\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of workers labelling and  sharpening the treated pencils\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up of Ecopencil logo, pull out to various of Davies Saiyanka Ole Kareso showing how pencils are made, UPSOUND (English) Davies Saiyanka Ole Kareso, Managing director of Ecopencil :\u003cbr/\u003e\"We buy the waste news print and this we take to the factory.The waste news print is cut into dimensions, which are the same size as the graphite lead which is 16.5 and 17 centimetres (6.4-6.6 inches).  After that we take the lead, using paper glue we adhere it onto the paper using our finger tips.This is how the paper looks like after the glue has been adhered on to the paper. After this we take this paper called the pasted paper and put it into a machine which is rolled and comes out as tight cylinders. When this has been done, we take them somewhere else and process them in a big pot and after 6 to 7 hours it becomes as hard as wood. Now after that has been done we go into the branding process and this are some of the samples of pencils that we have branded for different companies.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of worker putting pencils with loose labels into a heating machine to make the label stick\u003cbr/\u003e16. Worker tipping pencils onto table\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of workers packing the finished pencils for various clients\u003cbr/\u003e18. Pencils on table, pan to worker Christina Njeri sorting pencils\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Christina Njeri, Worker :\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel good because when we make pencils out of old waste newspapers we don't cut trees. So these pencils is environmentally friendly and it has no effect even when used by the children. It is a nice pencil.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Christina Njeri working\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Christina Njeri, Worker :\u003cbr/\u003e\"My life has changed since I started working at Ecopencil because am able to provide for my family, my kids. To educate them and to give them basic needs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Njeri walking home\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of Njeri preparing meal for her family\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of family eating\u003cbr/\u003eA Kenyan man is saving forests while helping locals to make pencils out of unwanted newspapers. \u003cbr/\u003eLocally made, cheap and cheerful, these eco pencils have a point !\u003cbr/\u003eThese small pencils are making a large impact in Kenya. \u003cbr/\u003eEcopencil is a small company in rural Kenya making pencils from recycled newspapers.\u003cbr/\u003eOld newspapers carefully bundled together and carried with care to a factory in rural Kenya is one step towards saving Kenya's trees from being destroyed.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe old newspapers will help children learn to read and write, they will help architects build medical centres and change lives and the environment for the better.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe newspapers evolve into pencils, while the trees have a better chance of growing into forests.\u003cbr/\u003eAt independence, Kenya's forest cover was over 30 per cent, but four decades later, it is only 1.6 per cent\u003cbr/\u003eExperts say for Kenya to counter the effects of climate change, it has to plant trees and increase its forest cover. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile the Kenyan government has started a tree planting campaign aimed at increasing the country's cover, many ordinary Kenyans are trying to save what little is left in the forests. \u003cbr/\u003eIt all began five years ago when Davies and two of his friends, just out of college, wanted to find a way to earn money in order to survive, but also to do so in a way that that would help their environment.\u003cbr/\u003eJust out of college, Davies found himself inspired by the environmentalist, the late Wangari Mathaai, Kenya's only Nobel Peace Prize winner who battled riot police to save Kenya's forests.\u003cbr/\u003eIt wasn't until Davies travelled to India and visited a factory there that made pencils out of old newspapers, that Davies knew what he wanted to do.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The need that I saw in the society basically here in Africa is that we normally cut down trees carelessly without thinking about the repercussions. I got a lot of inspiration from Wangari Maathai (the late 2004 Nobel winner) who had worked very hard in conserving the environment here in Kenya and after visiting her foundation, her Green Belt movement I got a lot of inspiration in that if I could come up with a novel idea  basically now using the waste news print paper i would actually be helping the environment.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe says his pencils help people and the planet.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our pencils are normally labour intensive so at least we would be killing two birds with one stone in the sense that we are creating employment for the youth, for the people who are unemployed and also conserving the environment.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePencils are normally made from wood with the main source of that wood being the cedar tree, listed as being on the \"threatened species\"  according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\u003cbr/\u003eThe Ecopencil factory is housed in one room only and employs over 30 people who come to work in shifts through out the day and night in order to try to cope with the demand for these \"eco friendly\" pencils.\u003cbr/\u003eWorkers at the Ecopencil consist of men and women, who manually put together the waste newspaper prints, cut them to the size of the graphite, glue, roll and process the pencils to completion. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's a painstaking process but the only one in Africa.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We buy the waste news print and this we take to the factory.The waste news print is cut into dimensions, which are the same size as the graphite lead which is 16.5 and 17 centimetres (6.4-6.6 inches).  After that we take the lead, using paper glue we adhere it onto the paper using our finger tips.This is how the paper looks like after the glue has been adhered on to the paper. After this we take this paper called the pasted paper and put it into a machine which is rolled and comes out as tight cylinders. When this has been done, we take them somewhere else and process them in a big pot and after 6 to 7 hours it becomes as hard as wood. Now after that has been done we go into the branding process and this are some of the samples of pencils that we have branded for different companies.\" says Davies Saiyanka Ole Kareso.\u003cbr/\u003eBusiness wasn't always this rosy. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen Davies started out ,shops and consumers didn't give him a chance. They simply didn't want to hear his environmental theories on eco pencils nor did they want to buy them.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe factory was forced to shut down while Davies worked out a new strategy to reach consumers. \u003cbr/\u003eHe opted to go directly to Non-governmental organisations that were environmentally friendly to public and private primary schools around the country.  His door to door strategy paid off. Now an eco pencil costs 32 Kenya shillings (40 US cents) instead the imported pencils that sell for 42 Kenya shillings (50 US cents).\u003cbr/\u003eChristina Njeri is one of the factory workers.\u003cbr/\u003eShe says she enjoys her job.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel good because when we make pencils out of old waste newspapers we don't cut trees. So these pencils is environmentally friendly and it has no effect even when used by the children. It is a nice pencil.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA mother of two, she  has been working at the company for four years.  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