- Nov 07, 2020
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- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020