Offsetting carbon emissions through carbon credits often presents itself as a simple solution to climate change, however, the reality is more complicated. While the carbon
Listen to this article: A kitchen garden can be a transformative asset for a subsistence farmer in Kenya, especially for a woman. Beyond providing a convenient source of fresh produce,
Listen to this article: Women play a key role in society and family units in Kenya and around the world. Even the bible places the responsibility of home building, and
Listen to this article. Over the past few years, Word Forest has been an avid participant in the University of Oxford’s Internship Programme. During this winter holiday period, we were
Listen to this article. In 2021, Arkbound published Tangled Yet Coiled, a poetry collection by the talented Tom Burgess who, most kindly, has donated his profits to Word Forest. Now
Listen to this article. Our co-founders, Tracey and Simon West, were recently interviewed by Nicola White, an artist and renowned mudlark. The interview is now live on her YouTube channel,
Listen to this article. It’s time to wrap up our serialisation of articles from this year’s Report and Accounts. Lindsey is our Educational Learning Platform (ELP) content creator and she
Listen to this article. With the end of COP28 drawing ever closer, this seems like a perfect time to review the positive (and negative) outcomes of the global meeting thus
Listen to this article. Water scarcity or lack of water at all, threatens health and development of communities. Such communities are constrained even economically as what little income they have
Listen to this article. In this penultimate episode in our series of articles from our Report and Accounts, we hear from Jed, our digital and social media expert. He talks
Listen to this article. About 20 years back, anyone in my community who could afford an iron sheet roof was considered to be financially well off. Everyone aspired to have
Listen to this article. Following on perfectly from Joy’s article last week, Solomon, also from Rusinga Island, dives deeper into the positive impacts being felt by the Mothers of the
Listen to this article. In episode 9, we heard the first part of the article by Joy, facilitator of the Mothers of the Forest on Rusinga Island, situated on the