Eidolon Helvum bat at Uhuru Gardens site Mombasa.

The project will empower 50 school going children (30 primary and 20 secondary non-boarding children) in 10 schools. The project will be targeted to schools near bat roosts. These children dubbed “bat defenders” will be empowered to in turn educate their schoolmates on the importance of bats whose approach is designed to create a “bottom-up knowledge transfer”; where the knowledge imparted will through a “trickle-down strategy” spread to their parents and communities. The goal of this project is to ultimately change the overall negative perceptions of bats and understand the role of “bottom-up approaches” in communicating conservation messages as well as create ownership of the bat species found in Mombasa amongst the defenders.

Eidolon Helvum bats at Uhuru Gardens.