Stop Air and Water Pollution in South Africa

Your generous donations help SDCEA continue to provide important information and seminars for the people of South Durban. SDCEA reaches thousands of people, particularly women and youth, through their action days, policy seminars, and community meetings.

Confronting the environmental impacts of industrialization and post-apartheid negligence in minority communities through policy action, lobbying for environmental accountability, and community organizing is central to what SDCEA does. Efforts to effectively integrate justice and sustainability in development for the environmental and social enhancement of South Durban necessitates community members understanding what can be done about the pollution and hazards in their areas. Seminars and information sessions, in addition to community meetings, have helped SDCEA present complex and technical issues to their government and make recommendations for policies based on people’s needs, not industries’.

Women tend to bear the greatest burden of both poverty and a harmful environment, both practically and economically, in caring for children and the elderly who are the most vulnerable to illnesses resulting from pollution. SDCEA focuses on supporting women as organizers, empowering them to become leaders in their communities on health and environmental rights issues.

By donating to this campaign, you can help continue programs to educate and bring together the women of South Durban who are most affected, strengthening their voices in demanding changes to environmental policy and the political inequality in their communities that has allowed oil and coal industries to pollute their air and water.