Jambo. Greetings from Nairobi. I've been attending the Global Young Greens conference in Kenya for the last week. Over 150 delegates from across the World have attended and surprisingly no one from Great Britain or the U.S. but two from Andorra! As well as us two Kiwis: Gareth Hughes from Wellington and Marcel Podstolski from Christchurch, and about 50 from Kenya, representing various NGOs including the Green Belt Movement founded in Kenya by Nobel Prize winner Warangi Marathi. It's been great meeting everyone and talking about what issues they are campaigning on, the state of their green parties or NGOs and as you can imagine talking an awful lot of politics.

Outcomes of the congress have been that we have decided to form a body called the Global Young Greens: constructed an organisational structure, voting methods, elected regional representatives and formed working groups to campaign on issues. We will be having another congress in 3 years which hopefully more Kiwis can attend. I am also looking forward to working closer with the Asia-Pacific Young Greens in the future.

A few days ago we bused into Karura bush, near Nairobi, which was slatted to be turned into slums but was saved by the Green Belt Movement who also helped us plant indigenous trees to offset all the carbon emitted getting us all here. It was great getting out of the city and into the bush and seeing a bit of nature.

Now I'm off to attend the World Social Forum where around 100 000 people have descended on Nairobi to attend.