Leah Akoth

Leah: Hi thanks so much for joining us, we would like to start by you telling us your name

Anita: Okay my name is Anita Soina. I am a third year student at multimedia pursuing PR and cooperates communication am also an inspirational speaker, I am a social media marketer or online marketer and also social media manager but most importantly am an environmental warrior or a climate change activist

Leah: thank you so much, so you said you are an environmental activist particularly which areas do you visit?

Anita : first when I talk about environmental activism  , I can say activism is not a name we give to ourselves we have been fighting for the environment that people end up call us activists because they think what we are doing is activism so what I do is basically protection of the environment in all corners we don’t care  which county we are doing it all over .We have done Kisumu,we have Nakuru ,Nairobi Ogata Rongai area that is Kajiado we have also done Narok and Kilgoris

Leah: So being a student and also taking care of the environment and social media what are some of the challenges you experience

Anita : The main challenge is balancing and then everything requires  resources like moving from one place to another getting even data to mobilize people on social media about environment that’s resources and everything else ,yeah but balancing is quite hard but I try a lot .You know we have 24 hours in a day and I can’t be in class for 24 hours , I cant be at home for 24 hours so I try and balance I start with what is important and to me environment is important

Leah: So, speaking about spice warriors how many members are you and what do you normally do to keep the team spirit going on?

Anita :  So first at the moment we don’t have an office we are running in a whatsapp group ,so the fully registered members we are up to 50 when I say fully registered member  I mean  those people wo have paid the registration fee but we also have other volunteers maybe wo haven’t paid the registration fee but at least have our merchandise and are at least representing the spice warriors .We are so many and also what keeps us going we work together as a team like I normally say I don’t have funs but I have a team we work together as a team and working as a team has helped us reach where we are today

Leah: Thanks so much its very inspiring when you see young people making a difference and lastly I would like to ask to tell youth who are out there who what to do something about the environment what can you tell them ?

Anita: What I can tell those people who what to engage in environment conservation ,do it now I don’t know what they are waiting for because time is changing .I was telling my friend today about global warming it’s a high time that we what to get married fast before global warming destroys al the honeymoon destinations .i think we should start right now and people shouldn’t wait everyone out there its your planet we don’t care who you are where you are from its still your planet ,

Leah: Thank you so much that has been Anita soina  encouraging youths to take care of the environment because the also live in it .I have been your host Leah Akoth