“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.” – Professor Wangari Maathai
(BrainyQuote, 2014)

(Kenya Farmers Harvesting Tea, 2014)

Climate change impacts the more vulnerable communities whose livelihood depend on the natural resources that they have around them in order to survive. Unlike people living in the city whose immediate impact is the increase in temperature of our weather, this little increase can cause water to dry up more quickly in an already dry area. This, coupled with the increasing rate of deforestation in the highlands of Kenya, leads to women having to travel further for clean drinking water and wood.

These are the major objectives of GMB’s advocacy approach:
1. Monitor forest policy in Kenya
2. Increase the understanding of the impact of climate change and what actions communities can take to build resilience.
3. Mobilise public support for environmental protection and compliance with laws to prevent violations of human and environmental rights through local leadership and national campaigns.
4. To influence national and international policy for the restoration and protection of indigenous forests through community led approaches- especially standing forests in the context of climate change.
(http://www.cstraight.com, 2014)