Oct 10, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
Faustina Mwololo shares her journey from growing up in Kibra to leading youth-driven environmental initiatives and influencing global conservation efforts. This episode highlights the power of local…
How did you come to realize that these issues you are seeing, seeing and working on locally in Kibra, you know, are also connected to much bigger conversations and decisions? And how has experience been at Desta? Could you take us through what that is like?
First of all, being a student of international relations, you need to be good at learning patterns and on how global debates go.
So the question is always about like in conservation, who owns the land, who benefits from it and who pays the price.
And it works in other ways too, because something locally adds a bigger picture to the world.
Because if the estimates right now are 80% of the global diversity, biodiversity is in Africa, but we're only receiving 2% of climate finance.
Where are those decisions being made? Because they're not made in a school kitchen.
When she started the Green Belt movement by planting trees with women, it was small.
Like the Nobel Prize was not for Wangari Maathai alone, it was for the whole team of women who joined and planted trees.
And that's how like a small local input can make a big difference because decisions, we need to be at the decision-making table.
How did you come to realize that these issues you are seeing, seeing and working on locally in Kibra, you know, are also connected to much bigger conversations and decisions? And how has experience been at Desta? Could you take us through what that is like?
First of all, being a student of international relations, you need to be good at learning patterns and on how global debates go.
So the question is always about like in conservation, who owns the land, who benefits from it and who pays the price.
And it works in other ways too, because something locally adds a bigger picture to the world.
Because if the estimates right now are 80% of the global diversity, biodiversity is in Africa, but we're only receiving 2% of climate finance.
Where are those decisions being made? Because they're not made in a school kitchen.
When she started the Green Belt movement by planting trees with women, it was small.
Like the Nobel Prize was not for Wangari Maathai alone, it was for the whole team of women who joined and planted trees.
And that's how like a small local input can make a big difference because decisions, we need to be at the decision-making table.
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