Hilda Flavia a 23-year-old Ugandan climate activist, stood on the corner of a congested Kampala intersection, ignoring plastic trash that fluttered in the breeze and the emissions from ramshackle vehicles as she held up a green placard. The words were Continue reading →

Nakate is a climate activist from Uganda. She was the First Fridays For Future climate activist in Uganda and founder of the Rise up Climate Movement in order to amplify the voices of activists from Africa. 

Last January, there Continue reading →

Oladosu grew up in Nigeria, where she is a country ambassador for Fridays for Future, Earth Uprising and African Youth Climate Hub.

“My journey into the environmental movement started when I gained admission to study agricultural economics. Though I had Continue reading →

Angelei  organized local people to fight the construction of the massive Gibe 3 Dam that would block access to water for indigenous communities around Lake Turkana. She is the founder of Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT). 

Located in Continue reading →

My name is Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti, but I’m more commonly referred to as Liz Mazingira. I am a passionate environmentalist, founder of Green Generation Initiative and an award-winning environmental blogger.

I have long had a great passion for environmental conservation. Continue reading →

One of the major international personalities who strives for the safeguarding of biodiversity and who is against monopolies of the planet’s resources, especially water, is surely the Indian activist, Vandana Shiva.

She was born in 1952 in Uttarakhand, India. Her Continue reading →

The journey of Fr. Bobby Dela Cruz from drug use to priesthood is a powerful testimony of God’s love. Today he is sharing God’s gift of redemption with drug surrenderers and persons deprived of liberty (PDLs).

As a high school Continue reading →

Virginia Pinares is a woman with a mission.  “I’m bringing a message from the forgotten rural women, from the most remote regions where the government has no presence. We must enter power and they have to see that we Continue reading →

A conference to seek concrete solutions to problems and, most of all, to get to know one another. A catholic nun livens up the proceedings.

Room has run out in the convent hall. People are talking loudly. We exchange greetings. Continue reading →

The Union of Superiors General of Catholic Religious Sisters launched the “Sowing Hope for the Planet” campaign two years ago. Sister Sheila Kinsey, its coordinator spoke to us about the project.

Sister Sheila, an American, has clear ideas. And she Continue reading →