Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

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

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Education of course 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, and with money you could buy things that you cannot buy if you don't have money.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.