• Urban Warriors

  • Feb 20 2021
  • Length: 22 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • This episode features Elizabeth Wathuti - The URBAN WARRIOR - one of the five NAWE Landscape Guardians. Her work with The Green Generation Initiative, has concentrated on  planting fruit trees in primary schools, especially those in lower income areas of Nairobi, to transform the landscape and also provide additional food and snacks for kids. Over 50,000 fruit trees have been planted in just four years.

    Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti is  a recipient of the Wangari Maathai scholarship award. Regional Finalist for Africa for the UN Young Champions of the Earth Prize 2019. She is a 2018 Global youth in landscape leadership winner, recognized by the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF).

    The conversation also by Dr Musonda Mumba, Director of The Rome Centre for Sustainable Development, Founding member of NAWE.

    https://natureconnection.world/listing/green-generation-initiative/
    The initiative focuses on nurturing young environmental enthusiasts, greening schools, environmental education, addressing food insecurity by planting fruit trees as well as inculcating a tree growing culture for forest cover increment through adopt a tree campaign.

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