Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.

The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

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

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.