My Tree, My Legacy: Why Climate Action Must Start with Youth in Rwanda’s Most Vulnerable Region
By Feston Bigirimana, Founder, Here For Hope Foundation “Igiti Cyange, Umurage Wange.” In Kinyarwanda, these words carry the weight of a generation’s responsibility. When we launched the “My Tree, My Legacy” campaign at the University of Rwanda’s Rukara Campus, we were not simply planting 6,800 trees. We were responding to a climate crisis that is reshaping…

