Team Leader of the Uganda Landcare Network (ULN) Dr Joy Tukhawira and Mr Mathias Wakulira talk to Senior EverGreening Fellow, Dr Alan Channer, about evergreening in Uganda. Groups of children wend their way through coffee and banana fields, their banter mingling with cock crows as the sun rises. And when they reach school, they…
Kaluki Paul Mutuku is a 26 year-old environmental activist born and raised in Kenya. Kaluki grew up in Machakos, a rural community in the Kenyan countryside, where he spent his childhood among nature. He recounts seizing every opportunity to go to the forest; whether to collect firewood for his mother, graze the cattle and goats,…
Written by Kaluki Paul Mutuku THE HUMMINGBIRD IN ME “We cannot afford to go back to “normal” systems that were before this pandemic, based and rooted in historical, environmental, social, and political injustices.” Hello, Hola, Habari, My name is Kaluki Paul Mutuku, a climate activist & environmental defender from Kenya (the land of Hakuna Matata).…
Kenyan FMNR champion Irene Ojuok talks to EverGreening Senior Fellow Dr Alan Channer When Irene Ojuok was a child, she would sit on the shores of Lake Victoria, near her hometown of Kisumu in Kenya, and reflect. ‘I had a sense of connection with nature,’ she recalls, ‘but I didn’t know you could get a…
Dr. Visier Sanyü often sleeps in his treehouse. It’s a feature of the 12-acre “Healing Garden” which he created in Medziphema, Northeast India. Sanyü, a retired professor of history and archaeology, likes to quote a Greek proverb to his visitors: ‘A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will…
By Tony Rinaudo “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Unlike Lewis Carroll’s Alice, most of us…