It’s people and stories like this we really need to listen to. - Vanessa Nakate

It hasn’t rained for two years. To experience what that means in a community, to see how much people are suffering and how much help they need, I really got to see how the climate crisis is affecting so many lives and destroying so many livelihoods, and that it’s mostly women and children who are suffering the most.

Many people are calling it an African Cop but it won’t be an African Cop if the communities, the activists are not there.

My advice would be that, even as we do activism, we prioritize ourselves, we prioritize our lives, we prioritize our mental health, because the very planet that we are fighting for will need us to exist as well.