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

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

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

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

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.