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In this story, Gaia’s long-time partner, Simon Mitambo, describes how the Indigenous Tharakan People of central Kenya are reviving culture and ritual to build their resilience to COVID-19 and other… Read More

Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Simon Mitambo describes the work and success of the Kithino Learning Centre. A school like no other where students are able to reconnect with and learn from… Read More

“We are turning the tide on the history of loss in our own lands.” In the first instalment in Gaia’s global Stories of Resilience series, our Kenyan colleague Simon Mitambo… Read More

A new podcast that gives voice to the radical, grassroots stories of our food systems has just been launched – Frontline Food. Through interviews with leading food sovereignty activists, including… Read More

This photo story explores how indigenous Tharakan People from central Kenya are reviving their Earth-centred customary laws, sacred natural sites, indigenous seeds and the life of their territory in climate-changed… Read More

Simon Mitambo and his childhood community of Tharaka, Kenya, are working together to revive and enhance their Earth-centred culture and traditions. Theirs is a story of going ‘back to roots’… Read More

This September, elders and youth, men and women, from Tharaka came together in the foothills of Mount Kenya to document their ancestral past in the form of eco-cultural maps and… Read More

At a colourful ceremony blessed by elders from the Kikuyu, Maasai and Tharaka Tribes, Africa’s first ever group of Earth Jurisprudence (EJ) practitioners graduated this July. Comprised of lawyers, educators,… Read More