As Covid-19 ravages our social and economic landscape, we must use it as an opportunity to ‘build back better’ as recommended by the World Health Organization.
Urban areas are known as epidemiological incubators of mental ill health because they often ignore the need for this balance.
This past week, the President opened the rehabilitated John Michuki Memorial Park in Nairobi, further directing administrative officials to ensure that their areas of jurisdiction are green and clean. There appears to be a fresh push by government to increase the green spaces in our urban areas and to create opportunities for citizens to enjoy the environment more, even in our city that was once known for being the ‘green city in the sun’.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed many problems with the industrial development paradigm we have operated in for centuries.
