NEST is a non-governmental organization, dedicated to improving the ways by which we interact with the environment. NEST is determined to become increasingly self-supporting, though maintaining a compact and efficient organizational profile, with a highly professional and well-motivated staff conscious of the need to generate income while remaining prudent in resource use.

The motivation for the establishment of NEST is deeply rooted in the paradox of ‘a natural resources blessed continent wallowing in bewilderment in the throes of poverty and want’, especially in the last three decades, to the extent that disturbing pictures of hunger stricken Africans often appear on television screens.