Nairobi, March 1 -- A group of women from the rural Kenyan village of Kapropita are waging war armed only with shovels and saplings.

While their weapons may seem meagre, these 42 mothers and grandmothers are fighting a formidable enemy: climate change.

Through an ingenious cooperative they call Remco Environmental Conservation and Horticulture, the rural women are fighting back tree by tree.

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Their unlikely story began in 2012 with a humble savings club whose objective was to improve their living standards and that of their families.

Out of that cooperative spirit grew a grassroots green movement that has already planted more than 7,000 trees to mitigate drought and flooding brought on by cl...