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August 2025

Photo caption: Through art, Dream Hatch Kenya is healing, inspiring, and transforming their community. Photo courtesy of Purity Busena.

We use performing arts, cultural traditions, and collective memory to bring healing to our relationship with the environment. Because this is not only a land that has been exploited, it's a people who have been separated from their roots.
Purity Busena
Co-founder of Dream Hatch Kenya, speaking in the Planetary Health in the Arts webinar series on ecological belonging and social healing in a community fractured by mining.

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