WEA Voices
WEA not alone
“As a young child, barefoot women and girls carrying heavy containers of water on their heads, walking long distances under the searing sun were a common sight. The reality of this stayed with me, and I knew I would do something about it someday.” Meet Olanike Olugboji, a WEA founding mother, who participated in…
Read MoreWishing you peace this holiday season
The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…
Read MoreWhy were the elephants so angry?
By: Katie Douglas, WEA intern In Ulhara, a village in the city of Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, India, a group of women gathered for a cluster meeting and sat in thoughtful conversation on a rising issue: Why were the elephants of the forest so angry? The women questioned what had driven fourteen elephants to wreak havoc and destruction in…
Read MoreWe are Responsible for Protecting Nature
By: Katie Douglas, WEA Intern “We Indigenous peoples of this village never thought that protecting natural resources was our responsibility. Now, we know we are responsible for protecting nature.” These are the powerful words of Sani Maya Bote, a farmer and mother from Manahari Village in Kathmandu, Nepal. As a child, Sani remembers the great…
Read MoreWeathering the Storms Together: Grassroots Women’s Response to Climate Change
WEA shares our thoughts on women, climate change and more in Earth Island Journal‘s online edition. “Tomorrow, September 29, is Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action. As nations prepare for the UN COP21 climate negotiations in Paris, women across the world will tell their stories, demonstrate their solutions, and demand that our world leaders…
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