Greta Thunberg Foundation says it will donate 150,000 euros to three charity organisations working in Africa to support people on the front line of the climate crisis.
The recipients, Development Diaries gathered, are the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the solar power-focused NGO Solar Sister, and Oil Change International.
Climate change is understood to be one of the major threats to Africa’s sustainable development and efforts to end poverty.
‘We are in a global emergency, which affects all of us. But everyone is not suffering its consequences equally’, Greta Thunberg said.
‘Africa is being disproportionately hit by the climate crisis, despite contributing to it among the least’.
The donations were made possible after Thunberg was awarded the Portuguese Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, worth one million euros.
Recently, the Women’s Climate Centres International (WCCI) developed a community hub project in the eastern Ugandan town of Tororo to address climate change issues.
The rate of forest cover loss in Uganda stands at 2.6 percent annually, one of the highest in the world.
According to the 2016/17 Uganda National Household Survey, more than 80 percent of the country’s rural households use firewood for cooking.
The high demand for wood fuel and limited access to energy saving alternatives means that forest cover is at risk of continued degradation.
Source: Yahoo News
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