Fresh plan to roll out ‘green’ classrooms in every school

Kenyan Elizabeth Wanjiru during a panel discussion at the UN climate talks in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. She was named a climate youth champion for mobilising school children to plant trees using an adopt-a tree model.

The recent mudslides in West Pokot may have left 34 people dead and hundreds displaced but certainly failed to shift talk into action by the State and its agencies.

Just this week, Anna Nduku, a teenager fell into a swollen river in Ongata Rongai and died while trying to rescue a flood victim. Many more deaths have been reported, including four in Kisumu this week.