Since 2016, Elizabeth Wathuti’s organization has planted more than 30,000 trees in her home country of Kenya.
has planted more than 30,000 trees in her home country of Kenya since she founded the organization in 2016. But the 28-year-old’s real goal is to sow the seeds of climate consciousness and advocacy in other young people.
Wathuti first developed her passion for the environment as a child growing up in Nyeri, a region of Kenya with one of the country’s largest tree canopies. As she grew older, her appreciation for nature morphed into activism. She revived her high school’s environmental club to learn more about climate change by tracking trends like rain formation using the school’s weather station. And when she graduated from Kenyatta University, Wathuti founded Green Generation Initiative to teach children to “clean their own air, grow their own food, and create their own green spaces”—in part by planting trees.
“Africa’s greatest resource is its young people,” she says. Seventy percent of the continent is under the age of 30. “These young people are the ones that are driving ideas, creating solutions, and driving innovations on the ground. And it's the same young people that, if you don't invest in them, will have to live longer with the consequences of climate inaction.”has led to famine in Northern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
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