By MADRE | MADRE
Thank you so much for your support of the Help Women in Kenya Confront Climate Change project. With you by our side, we bring clean water and share strategies to help women farmers battle frequent and severe drought.
But that’s not all your support helps to achieve. With your help, we give local women leaders the skills to advocate for better climate policies, and we bring their important voices to international climate talks.
Just last month, your support helped bring three of our Indigenous Kenyan partners to an international climate summit organized by the United Nations.
Here, our partners called for the inclusion of Indigenous women’s solutions in climate change policies. Here is some of what they said:
Where I come from, we have big problems to get clean drinking water - which is also related to climate change. My organization supports the women of the Indigenous communities, and teaches them to collect rainwater on the roofs of their houses, and gather for dry periods in collecting containers. In addition, we plant trees for our firewood, so that women no longer have to walk for kilometers to collect wood. I am for the first time on a UN climate summit. For me and other representatives of Indigenous communities, it is important that you take our concerns seriously. Together, we have a much stronger voice and can reach policy-makers who often don’t listen to us in our own countries. There we are hardly noticed in what we do, and receive no financial support for our projects. But here, we can be heard. Women play the most important role in our communities; they need empowerment, they carry everything. – Margaret
Many Indigenous communities in Kenya are able to detect the levels of climate change on their lives. We help them to develop adaptation plans and to express their concerns to the government and be heard. We want the government to actually understand what is at stake. – Edna
Putting women’s expertise at the center of climate negotiations is a vital step to create climate policies that will protect us all.
Thank you for making this work possible!
By MADRE | MADRE
By MADRE | MADRE
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