By Eddah Waithaka
In a vibrant celebration for World Children’s Day 2025, a coalition of African climate and health organizations officially launched the Triple C Campaign, a global movement uniting the power of Children, Climate Action, and Conservation.
The event, hosted at the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD), brought together staff children, environmental activists, pediatricians, and institutional partners.
Under the theme “Healthy Children, Healthy Climate, Healthy Environment,” the morning featured interactive learning and climate-awareness activities designed to strengthen the link between a stable planet and child wellbeing.
“Children are bearing a big challenge,” stated Dr. Pamela Kaithuru, Head of the Counseling Unit at KMD, highlighting the urgent need for the campaign.
She outlined the direct impacts of climate extremes from displacement and lost education to malnutrition that disproportionately affect the young.
“So on this World Children’s Day, it was very important as partner to bring the awareness of climate conservation and health and well-being of our planetary health.”
The launch event demonstrated this commitment to youth inclusion. Children led conversations on climate issues, sang songs with environmental messages, and participated in a tree-planting ceremony, actively learning how to secure their own future.
“The children’s participation is very, very key in climate action,” Dr. Kaithuru emphasized.The newly formed Triple C Campaign, a joint initiative of the Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment (ACOPPHE) and the African Coalition of Communities Responsive Climate Change (ACCRCC), plans to make this engagement a year-round effort.
“This evening, virtually, we are launching a Global CCC Campaign,” announced Nathaniel Uchtman, Executive Director of a convening NGO. “We are connecting these three C’s so that we unite intergenerationally the young and the old.”
The campaign will align its activities with significant global dates, including Mother Language Day in February, World Biodiversity Day in May, and International Youth Day in August, to maintain momentum and broaden its reach.
For the health community, the campaign represents a critical shift towards prevention. A attending pediatrician stressed that “one of the most effective tools for prevention for long-term child health is a healthy, safe, clean environment.”
Charles Mwangi of the Kenya Meteorological Department grounded the event in Kenya’s immediate climate reality, pointing to the current suppressed rains and extreme heat.
“Who are the first to be affected? Our children,” Mwangi said. “Children are the future of not just Kenya, but of the planet. So we better take care of the planet.”
The Triple C Campaign launches as a direct response to this urgent need, positioning children not as passive victims, but as essential participants in the fight for a healthier, more sustainable world.
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