TAKING ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGEAN INITIATIVE BASE ON TESTIMONIES AND EXPERIENCE WITH YOUTHS.by | 14-02-2015 18:29 |
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Hello to all Ambassadors and warms greetings from Cameroon. It was a cold and dusty Monday morning in the Western Grassland of Bamenda,Cameroon and I had an appointment to meet with the principle and later final year students of Government Bilingual High school NSONGWA.It was a presentation titled, CLIMATE AND YOUR IMMEDIATE EVIRONMENTTESTIMONY OF EXPERIENCES AND HOW TO ADAPT TAKE ACTION. I started by introducing myself and unveiling the objectives and opportunities of Tunza and telling them about this wonderful environmental networking platform to empower children and youths about their environment, problems affecting it and how they can make their voices heard. The hall was crowded with bright faces and young minds ready to air their minds on what has change over the years in their local communities and how they were adapting to this change and the package TUNZA has for them to better this. I did a 30minutes interactive talk on on global environmentalism ,climate change and our immediate environment with evidence on the variability of rainfall and scarcity of water resources which were fast drying up. We also deliberated on how this uncertainty in rainfall affect rain fed agriculture here leading to poor harvest. The conversation was interesting and double coined for most of them have been conscious and living historians of how this change has affected their lives. The youths were eager and interested to participate in the activities of Tunza to create impact in their environment as change makers which I link them to website and share some few souvenirs to active participants.. This imitative was one of its kind, after the interactive talk there was series of questions and answers which help me realized how this youths perceived their environment. At, the end the staffs said this initiative could be more sustainable if a Club is created and follow up in this institution and I assured them that when reporting I will made it know to Tunza.I would like Tunza to know I face challenges in managing clubs created last year . |