I’ve always said that climate change is more than statistics, it’s more than weather, but in Turkana I really got to understand those words. - Vanessa Nakate

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.

"Your actions matter. No action or voice is too small to make a difference." []

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.