
World Environment Day in Makasa Parish, Tanzania.
In this years’ world environment day, I got an invitation from Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) under their program called Faith Leaders’ Environmental Advocacy Programme (FLEAT) which I am a participant in, to join them and attend the event in Same district, Tanzania. A faith-based organization called Hope…

Young People Lead the Way at the Laudato Si Conference
“Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis, and the sufferings of the excluded.” These words from paragraph 13 of the encyclical Laudato Si’, came alive in a unique way at the Vatican summit marking the…

Pope Francis: Our Planet Needs Urgent Repair
In his address to participants of the international conference on the third anniversary of Laudato Si, Pope Francis, highlighted the urgent need to respond to the encyclical’s call for change, for an ecological conversion. “Here we can think back on the call that Francis of Assisi received from the Lord…

Laudato Si and Wildlife Conservation Interview at Radio Tumaini
On June 7, the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) engaged the Coastal community of Kenya on issues of human-wildlife conflict from a Laudato Si perspective through a radio program hosted by Rebecca Makeo at Radio Tumaini in Voi, Kenya. Radio Tumaini is an initiative of Lwanga…

Solving the Marine Litter and Micro Plastics Puzzle-A Young Tanzanian’s Perspective.
Experts from around the world convened at the UN Regional Headquarters for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya for the First Ad Hoc Open Ended Expert Group (AHOEEG) meeting on Marine Litter and Micro Plastics from May 29 to 31, 2018 to deliberate on ways through which this menace could be contained….