In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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.
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.
