Women Activists From Uganda

"I’ve always said that climate change is more than statistics, it’s more than weather, but in Turkana I really got to understand those words."

"Many people are calling it an African Cop but it won’t be an African Cop if the communities, the activists are not there."

"You cannot adapt to lost cultures. You cannot adapt to lost traditions. You cannot adapt to extinction."

""Your actions matter. No action or voice is too small to make a difference." https://laidlawscholars.network/posts/your-actions-matter"

"We need to move beyond dialogues because with every dialogue there is a child dying, with every dialogue there is a family migrating looking for sources of water and looking for food, for every dialogue people continue to suffer."

"We can only better take care of the planet when we are also doing well. As we advocate and fight for climate justice, it’s really important that young people really prioritize their mental health and their own self care, to find out, what is self care to them?"

"My advice would be that, even as we do activism, we prioritize ourselves, we prioritize our lives, we prioritize our mental health, because the very planet that we are fighting for will need us to exist as well."

"There are people who are looking for answers to a question that needs to be answered through much needed reparations and responsibility from the global north."

"Africa is on the frontlines of the climate crisis but it’s not on the front pages of the world’s newspapers. Every activist who speaks out is telling a story about themselves and their community, but if they are ignored, the world will not know what’s really happening, what solutions are working. The erasure of our voices is literally the erasure of our histories and what people hold dear to their lives."