We Need To Promote Development That Does

Because I Was A Woman, I Was Vulnerable. It Was Easy To Vilify Me And Project Me As A Woman Who Was Not Following The Tradition Of A 'good African Woman.'

Women Are Responsible For Their Children, They Cannot Sit Back, Waste Time And See Them Starve.

It Gradually Became Clear That The Green Belt Movement's Work With Communities To Repair The Degraded Environment Could Not Be Done Effectively Without Participants Embracing A Set Of Core Spiritual Values.

For Me Planting A Tree Is A Very Doable Thing. It's Not Complicated, It Doesn't Require Technology, It Doesn't Require Much Knowledge, But It Can Be A Very Important Entry Point Into Communities Understanding How They Destroy Their Own Resources, But How They Can Also Restore Those Resources, And Not Wait For Their Government Or International Agencies To Come And Help Them.

We Think That Diamonds Are Very Important, Gold Is Very Important, All These Minerals Are Very Important. We Call Them Precious Minerals, But They Are All Forms Of The Soil. But That Part Of This Mineral That Is On Top, Like It Is The Skin Of The Earth, That Is The Most Precious Of The Commons.