Education is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much faster because they could get a job, they could get money. Once people see that you improve your life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.