The climate crisis has put the world in grave peril. It has become so difficult to know what calamity is bound to happen net when looking at the way the globe is responding to the climate emergency. For the last two decades, I used to assume that politicians and policy makers would take the matter more seriously if only there was more information about the impacts and consequences of a warming planet. Unfortunately, the climate crisis is treated normally despite the existence of numerous beautiful environmental policies in place. When I realized that humans are responsible for climate change and the extreme weather events it generates, a growing concern over the personal impacts of climate change challenged me to become an environmental advocate so that I can localize and personalize climate communication to engage young people (age 5-13) more effectively through environment and climate literacy in public primary schools. For me it is important to communicate information about the impacts of climate change, it is also important to conduct non-convectional climate actions when reaching out to children so that they can relate to and draw inspiration from. When I was in campus, I thought that science was all we needed, “That if we continued providing the scientific papers, that for some miraculous reason, leaders would read the papers.” “I thought that having enough information, leaders would be able to make rational decisions” But I quickly realized that “the world doesn’t work like this and most decisions are made in an irrational way.” In my third year of study in 2015, I managed to attend a tree planting ceremony that was organized by East Africa Wildlife Society at Kereita Forest. It was at this point that I finally realized what science communicators already know: that the relationship between how much people know about the climate crisis and how they act is not necessarily linear. Since then I have volunteered with some organizations and movements in Kenya and beyond like Hummingbird Greenpeace Africa, Global Youth Biodiversity Framework and Fridays For Future just to mention a few. The world has less than 10 years to halve carbon emissions to be on track to ensure global warming gets no higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But we are destroying rainforests and cutting down trees that help store carbon at an alarming rate, exacerbating climate change. In 2021 September, I applied for the Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice, an initiative of Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and I luckily secured a chance to attend the training for two weeks at Kenyatta University. My desire to understand the climate change story did not end there, in October 2021 I applied for the Climate Reality Corps Leadership training, a project founded by the former US Vice- President Al Gore. After the trainings I realized that I should not underestimate the power of my voice. I’m now a climate change activist under Fridays for Future Kenya and the Country Mentor Volunteer at the Africa Climate Reality Project in support of action to prevent deforestation and join well-designed efforts to plant new trees to defend the planet. I founded Beyond the Trails Kenya in June 2020 , a youth led initiative with focus on Sustainable Development Goals 13, 14 and 15 respectively. In this regard, I’m involved in school outreach program for environmental education. I’m ambitious to grow 10 million trees in support of the UN’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, which aims to restore, protect, or plant 1 trillion trees by 2030. I believe that education is an essential factor in the ever more urgent global fight against climate change. To stimulate their curiosity about the natural world and their concern for the health of the planet, I promote environment and climate literacy. Today, Beyond the Trails Kenya has managed to reach out to 5,000 learners and has planted over5,000 trees in Narok and Nairobi counties respectively. Winning the Hummingbird Kenya ward will be a bold step in my 2022’s tree planting calendar because I will be excited to plant with children the 1,000 seed balls. https://beyondthetrails.co.ke/ https://www.climaterealityproject.org/ https://m.facebook.com/fridaysforfuturekenyaofficial/ https://www.climate-justice.school/