It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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