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A big warm welcome to all my new followers and supporters of #SaveTheSheaTree
As we head on to the week of #Stockholm50 I will share will share with you my journey.
Having born in N Uganda, we had to constantly move around as we faced wars.
I noted how it was always
women and children who faced the brunt of not getting the basics such as food and water.
We moved from Uganda to Congo to eventually settling in Tanzania where with tutelage from my uncle, I became a biology teacher through which I could impart my knowledge.
I regularly visited
my home town in N Uganda and I saw how the shea trees that had been a massive part of my identity in my birth town being cut down for charcoal.

This was being done mostly by traders outside our community who would benefit living women who benefited from the shea trees
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