Taking care of environment is part of religious leaders' work

First Lady Mama Rachel Ruto during a tree planting exercise at Shikuse prison in Kakamega County on June 8, 2023. [PCS, Standard]

Last year, on a trip to Ethiopia, my Tanzanian colleague Amani Shayo and I had the pleasure of meeting  Wassie Alemayehu, an incredible conservation leader and a foremost authority on the Ethiopian Church Forest programme.

As we sat with him and his team from ORDA-Ethiopia to help them strategise, they described their work. I was fascinated, not just by the interplay between faith and conservation, but by Ethiopia's enduring allure for those of us whose parents were in the Mau Mau Freedom Movement.