Planet people profit and prosperity

A month ago I was in Kenya for a life changing trip with Compassion. What I understood and saw with pain in my heart was the effect of poverty and waste on children’s and people’s lives.  I came to Kenya thinking about the effects of climate change on poor people whose crops cannot be harvested by lack of water. I was confronted with a more visible pressing issue namely that of waste. Every time I introduced myself at a Compassion project, someone came to me asking what could be done to get rid of all the plastic bags or in some other way asked about the environmental degradation. I can try to describe

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