Environment
Why stewardship of the country comes before enterprise on it.
“The river you drain is not the river your grandchild drinks from.”
An Endorois warning
The Kalenjin country is a highland country. Our forests recharge the rivers of half of Kenya. Our escarpments hold the soils of a continent. If we do not steward this, no other work we do will matter, because the ground we do it on will be gone.
What we mean by stewardship
Stewardship is not preservation, and it is not exploitation. It is the disciplined use of a trust, so that the use we make of it today does not diminish the use our grandchildren can make of it tomorrow. It is a shepherd's ethic applied to a country.
What that looks like
It looks like a Mau ridge replanted, a Kerio spring recovered, a Cherangany forest defended in court, and a Baringo ridge community forest association trained to hold its own charter. It looks like ceremonies performed by the recognised custodians before a project touches ground.