Posts by Emi Okikawa
Fall Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: Look what can happen in 2 weeks
Left: WEA Global Program Manager Dr. Annesha Chowdhury, PhD (middle) with friends at colleagues at the Climate March in NYC. Credit: Amira Diamond / Middle and Right: Frontlines of the Climate March in NYC. Credit: Amira Diamond Dear Friends, In the span of just two weeks—while we attended the Women’s Funding Network Conference in D.C.…
Read MoreLove as Liberation: Poetry for Reproductive and Climate Justice
The Women’s Foundation California (WFC) recently published Intersection: a collaborative zine that uplifts the voices of community poets and activists and creates a collective space to organize, heal, and envision our reproductive justice future. This first edition included a poem written by Daniela Perez, WEA’s Director of North America/Pacific programs. Her poem, Consider the Opposite, explores the radical edge of healing from intimate partner violence and reminds us that reproductive justice is climate justice.
Read MoreGrassroots Feminists are Breaking the Cycle of Conflict and Climate Disaster
By: Annesha Chowdhury, WEA’s Global Programs Manager On a crisp mid-March morning, I took a busy train from Queens to Manhattan to get to the Church Center of the United Nations. I made my way through a crowd of excited women leaders from all over the world, who had gathered to attend the sixty-seventh…
Read MoreTransforming Lives and Livelihoods through Eco-Entrepreneurship
At 38 years old and the widowed mother of 5, Namuddu Harriet had begun to feel weighed down by the compounding challenges she faced on a daily basis. That’s when she heard about a COVID & Climate Resilience Training being offered by WEA and the Uganda Women’s Water Initiative (UWWI). The training would support Ugandan grassroots women like Namaddu to build community resilience to address the impacts of the pandemic and climate crisis, by establishing green community-based micro-enterprises which would provide sustainable livelihoods.
Read MoreGrassroots Women Are Saving Kenya’s Last Tropical Rainforest
Nestled along the eastern edge of the Congo Basin forests, the Kakamega tropical rainforest is the last of its kind in Kenya. Yet, despite being home to species found nowhere else in the country, the Kakamega has been under attack for decades. WEA and our longtime partner, Kenyan women-led NGO, Women in Water and Natural Resource Conservation (WWANC) are conserving and planting native trees through a series of community conservation trainings this year.
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