By Fondo de Mujeres del Sur | In close collaboration with the activists
August 1st marks the Day of the Pachamama, who the Andean indigenous communities worship as an earth goddess. Is a day to thank and celebrate: to thank women environmental defenders for their commitment and struggle, and to celebrate collective care as a political and vital practice.
As Fondo de Mujeres del Sur, this year, we are celebrating ten years supporting women environmental defenders' organisations and the strategies they develop to make more sustainable and healthy ways of living.
Strategies such as those carried out by Bernarda and her community in the department of Presidente Hayes, Paraguay, to prevent intensive eucalyptus cultivation from endangering the community's water sources; or those carried out by a group of neighbours in the south of the city of Cordoba, Argentina, who one day began to organise to make their right to a healthy environment effective in the face of an alcohol production plant in their residential neighbourhood. Or how the women from the Mocoví community in Tostado, Santa Fe, Argentina, built a well to collect rainwater, solving a vital problem.
We invite you to read each story and support the work of women environmental defenders to build a more sustainable and healthy world, the world we deserve (and want!) to live in .
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