Engage children at all levels in climate justice

Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry of Kenya Deborah Barasa,plant a bamboo tree on, September 18th 2025, during world Bamboo day celebrations. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

If children could be given room to play in the rain, they always would, because it is fun. However, not all rain is friendly. Sometimes, when it rains, it pours, and they are dampened, in all aspects.

In 2019, in the wake of Cyclone Idai, the VOA reported, with figures confirmed by the Mozambican government, that “an estimated 900,000 children… were orphaned or separated from their families, made homeless or otherwise affected”. They accounted for “half of the 1.8 million people impacted overall”.