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Teen likened to a tree that will grow into an unshakeable tree

 

"I create awareness and take responsibility for the environment. I care, do you?" 
This is the We Care Club slogan, an initiative championed by Stephen Njoroge, 14, whose efforts have ensured that at least 100,000 trees take root in logged areas.

Articulation and purpose that you cannot ignore is in this Class Eight pupil of Makini School, Nairobi. In one of his speeches, yes he gives speeches, Stephen opines in a simple, yet clear manner:  "The equation simply does not add up. One county has a surplus of cabbage that they can afford to feed their cattle with yet in another county, in the same country, hordes of women seek out wild poisonous fruit to cook for their starving children." 
The answer according to Stephen lies in all of us.

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