Posts Tagged ‘WWANC’
Women-led Climate Solutions for a Thriving Future in East Africa
Join Women’s Earth Alliance for a World WEAver Online Event Women-led Climate Solutions for a Thriving Future in East Africa WEDNESDAY, MAY 10TH 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM EAT / 10 PM IST Women’s Earth Alliance in partnership with Kenyan NGO WWANC (Women in Water and Natural Resource Conservation), invites…
Read MoreSpring Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: All we need to meet this moment
Dear Friends, As we welcome in the Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, we recognize that Winter has left us with a lot to take stock of: From this week’s IPCC report—offering both warnings on the dangers of fossil fuels, and also a blueprint to change course—to the outrageous approval of the destructive Willow oil drilling project in…
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.
Read MoreGrassroots initiatives, global impacts
This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the transformative power of grassroots women-led solutions to create global impact and ensure a just and sustainable future. Grassroots women leaders in WEA and WWANC’s East Africa Women and Forests Accelerator. Photo: Anthony Wanjiku At Women’s Earth Alliance, we see that it’s not top-down approaches that will transform our…
Read MoreWEA Alumni Circle Event: Reforesting the Planet
It has been proven time and again that women play a pivotal role in the efforts against climate change. Here, among us, are many such women who lead vast initiatives such as forest restoration and ecosystem protection, as part of their indigenous communities and work with grassroots level leaders to create the impacts that we…
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