Wakulima Wadogo translates to ‘children of the soil’ from kiSwahili. On the frontlines of Kenya’s climate crisis, a fourteen-year-old girl trades her family’s herd for a garden – holding on to her dream of becoming a lawyer. In Baringo County, a semi-arid region in northern Kenya where rain is increasingly scarce, pastoralist communities are being pushed to the edge. Children walk long distances to fetch water and herd livestock — school is a privilege few families can afford. The film follows Dinah, a 14 year-old girl whose family sold their goats to pay for her education. At St. Luke’s Kasitet Primary School in Tangulbei, she tends her own small plot of land — choosing what to grow, whether to bring the harvest home or sell it at the local market. The film interweaves the personal and the collective, tracing what happens to identity when the climate crisis is not a distant threat but the reality you’re born into. It’s a story about resilience, adaptation, and the persistence of hope. It offers us a vision of agency and an alternative future. 

Director: Giordano Margaglio 

Local Producer: Lucy Ntongai

Executive Producers: Afsaneh Angelina Rafii and Madeleine Bazil

Sound Mix: Michele Priore

Behind the Scenes: Cecilia Consalvo