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How the Digital Champions are Empowering their Rural Communities

by Ayuska Motha, AIWC CologneHope for Girls Women

You probably already know that FAWCO’s Target Project for 2020-2022 is S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Elimination), an initiative of Hope for Girls and Women in Tanzania. The goal of S.A.F.E is to protect girls from FGM and foster positive social change from within the FGM-practicing communities in the Mara Region of Tanzania.

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Organic Farming

by Keziah Watatua, AWA Kenya (and member of FAWCO’s Education Team)

 

Hope and Optimism

January 2020 began with a lot of hope and optimism because for the first time in my lifetime, we experienced rainfall in this first month of the year – an unusual phenomenal indeed! In this part of the globe, this month is usually driest. This...

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The Glorious World of Washable Diapers (or Nappies)

by Amanda Drollinger, AWC Central Scotland 

The world is changing, and reducing our individual waste is critical for each of us. This includes newborn babies. They don’t know they Riva 2 compressedAmanda’s daughter, Rivaare causing the production of huge amounts of non-recyclable waste just by wearing disposable diapers. Luckily, the solution already exists and has improved in recent years to be very easy...

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The Plastic Pandemic – Part 1

by Alexandra de Jager, AWG Paris, FAUSA

 

Plastic WastePlastic waste. It’s everywhere – from the depths of the oceans to the peaks of mountains. Even before COVID-19, the volume of plastic per day going into the ocean by weight was equivalent to 90 aircraft carriers. This is the speed at which we are destroying the ocean. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres,

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Palm Oil: It’s Here to Stay

By Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg

All-pervasive
OrangutanPalm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...

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The Sustainable Innovation Forum – Climate Action: Roadmap to the (Delayed) COP26

by Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague

Sustainable Innovation Forum 2020

COP26 has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we cannot postpone the climate emergency! Momentum has to be not only maintained, but intensified. That is the key message of the virtual meetings that took place at this interesing  Sustainable Innovation Forum on November 16–20. Many interesting speakers from...

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