Kenya, let's go greener!

History is replete with many men and women who dared change the world. One thing in all their stories stand out and that is they dared dream when everybody else was asleep, they dared go where everyone else was afraid to go. Sometimes though, it required the collective efforts of a few committed people to make an impact. All this leads me to hail a group of young professionals from Kaiti, Makueni who have joined to promote climate awareness and Green Kenya through the application of the Moittanai Koto 3R principle of reduce, reuse and recycle. Their story makes the words of Margret Mead truer when she says never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Closely looking at the issues that Kaiti Greening Champions (KGC) and other Greening groups are trying to highlight at a time when everyone else is focused on politics one sees the need for more environmental groups, clubs in schools and churches and all of us to be conscious of our environment. There is a saying that we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors but we borrow it from our children and grandchildren. It cannot be further from the truth. Today we need to conserve our natural forests, our water catchment areas, our natural rivers and lakes and our atmosphere more than ever before. The only way is to follow the path that Prof. Wangari Mathai showed us, Go green.

It is estimated that by the middle of the century the population will hit 9.3 billion people. All these fighting for the ever reducing vegetation cover, no trees, polluted water and global warming taking its center stage the effects  may be too detrimental than we foresee. As citizens of the world each of us is responsible for their actions. We need to care for the health of our earth, we need to preserve our air, and we need to keep the planet safe for future generations to come.

The only way to achieve this is to join efforts and support greening efforts like I learned this KGC is doing, greening of schools, churches, roadsides, our sambas lets plant a tree everywhere, for shade, for fruits for a cleaner and more safe earth. It starts in our homes, in our church gathering, in the governments, the counties and the villages. If we all adopt a tree today Kenya will have 40 million trees and by the close of the century we will be a green country, a beautiful land. We cannot wait for anyone else, it is just us.

One last cry is to our media lets tell the stories as they are, let’s show the effects of global warming and let’s create awareness. To safe the already fragile earth we need the media and everyone to do their littler thing like the humming bird in the story told by the late Prof. Wangari Maathai. The only way to conclude is to say we never know they worth of water until the well runs dry and if we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.