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5 Madiba Quotes to Reflect on this Mandela Day
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has become an international beacon of public service; he sacrificed 27 years of his life, serving a prison term for the liberation of his people.
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How does ‘organic food’ affect your body?
Is the food you and your family eat everyday really free from synthetic chemical pesticides? Join us. Challenge yourself to switch to organic food and help promote pesticide-free food for families everywhere. Together, we can fix the broken food system!
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Mandela, an instrument of hope
Yes, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was an incredible man. He lived his life with his fist constantly held up high ready for battle, fighting for the sustainability of all mankind, the…
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Prisca Nafula Mayende: A Rural Activist Transforming Women’s Lives in Bungoma County
Prisca hails from a small village called Naigai in Bungoma County, Western Kenya. The energetic mother of nine lives with her husband and children on her 3.8 acre farm. Her husband…
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It’s election time! Since 1994, what progress?
Eish! Its Local Election time again… What do they mean to me? I have voted in every single election since 1994, it’s all about bread and butter issues unlike national elections.
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Project Sunshine: Powering off-grid communities with Renewable Energy
Barely twenty kilometres from the Lanseria airport in Johannesburg, timidly lies Diepsloot - an informal settlement in the north of the economic capital city.
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Penguins March to Cape Town
People around the world are waking up to pictures of penguin sightings across the globe. The penguins have been spotted travelling on trains, arriving at international airports and at iconic…
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Strength in numbers: Sensitising retailers and consumers plastic pollution in Nairobi, Kenya
The Kenyan government’s single-use plastic carrier bag ban came into effect on 28 August, 2017. However, there are still a number of unregulated suppliers in Nairobi’s informal settlements supplying smuggled plastic bags on demand to small scale retailers.
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New Year’s plastic resolution: 5 simple ways to help the ocean
The New Year’s storms have brought a lurid, unmissable reminder to UK beaches, with thousands of bright pink detergent bottles being churned up by the sea. As waves of highly-visible plastic trash hit British beaches, it’s a timely reminder of a much bigger problem: we are turning our oceans into plastic soup. It’s been estimated recently that…
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Investigation: How illegal timber from Cameroon’s rainforest could be landing in China’s ports
Chinese firms are importing large quantities of wood which may be illegally cut from African rainforests – according to an ongoing Greenpeace investigation into one of the leading Cameroonian suppliers…
