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Off-grid, renewable energy technologies like this solar light are increasingly more affordable to communities such as Ankazobe, Madagascar, where less than 35 percent of the population has access to electricity. Students complete more years of school when they have electricity in their homes because they have more time for reading and homework.
Students are planting trees in Gaza as part of the Fashet Amal ("Glimpse of Hope") initiative. The program is designed to help youths take an active role in promoting environmental awareness and mitigating climate change.
PYE supports 50,000 vulnerable and marginalized youth aged 10-19 with services that improve education, health, access to employment opportunities, and community involvement.
The initiative was designed and implemented by Save Youth Future (SYF), PYE's partner in Gaza.
This photo was taken in July 2022 and shows a United States Energy Association (USEA) facilitated training of dispatchers from the Rwanda Energy Group's National Electricity Control Center (NECC), occurring in Belgrade, Serbia. The training helped expand the knowledge and skills of NECC operators. They learned about the management of essential control room equipment and the application of the latest operational procedures. This training expanded the Rwanda Energy Group's capacity to handle systemic changes, reduce outages, and deliver uninterrupted power supply. This builds pathways to achieve Rwanda's vision of universal energy access by 2024.
The USEA, through the Rwanda Utility Partnership Program under the Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP), is helping the Rwandan utilities in two major areas - integrating renewable generation into the grid and improving the stability and reliability of the national grid. This program, funded by USAID's Power Africa, is not just addressing Rwanda's energy security and access but integrates renewables and supports low-carbon development to combat climate change.
The photo shows children between the ages of 9 and 13 who belong to 14 different indigenous communities in the middle basin of the Napo River, Maynas Province, Department of Loreto, Peru. They received recycling and environmental education classes from Green Gold Forestry S.A. (GGF) technical staff. The children awakened their interest in environmental preservation and care, developing environmental responsibility and responsiveness to their actions early, thus becoming "mini-agents of change towards sustainable development."
The students expressed their gratitude for the learning acquired in these workshops, which focused on correctly managing solid waste and recycling in their daily lives. They were also amazed to discover the variety of handicrafts that can be created from plastic bottle waste, highlighting the need to share and incorporate recycling practices with their families at their homes. This initiative proposed by GGF contributes to Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action, which promotes awareness and, thereby, understanding of the effects of pollution in the context of climate change.
Green Gold Forestry (GGF) conducts a social baseline survey focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which includes current economic, cultural, social, demographic, and geographic aspects in the area. This activity was implemented in 14 indigenous communities that are partners of the USAID-funded project "Sustainable Management of Forestry Concessions." The activity was based on data collection through surveys, contributions, and observations from the Kichwa and Murui Muinani ethnic groups, who shared their knowledge and practices related to the use of natural resources in the area and indicated access routes. In the photo, Kyara Arciniega, GGF forest custodian (a specialist in the protection of forest resources and wildlife), provides technical information with traditional and ancestral knowledge from the community about the management of forest resources in the region. These actions strengthen conservation efforts, ensuring gender equity and social inclusion of indigenous peoples. In addition, GGF encourages indigenous women to establish a bond of awareness and communication so that they can participate in the benefits provided by the project implemented by GGF.
This photo shows the village Khonama in Nagaland in India. Soil erosion in difficult terrain like this not only jeopardizes the geographical contour of the region but also adversely affects the ecology of the surrounding locality. Step cultivation is one of the most effective, known means for agriculture in hilly regions. This ancient technique produces food for sustainable living and stops the devastating effects of continuous erosion. Khonoma is a Naga village located about 20 km west of Kohima, the capital of Nagaland state, which lies on the Indo-Myanmar border. The village is inhabited mostly by the Angami tribe. In recent years, habitual ethnic and sacred cultural practice of hunting has been stopped by the conservation-minded village elders, except for three days in a year. The hills are covered with lush forestland, rich in various species of flora and fauna, including the endangered state bird, Blyth’s tragopan. Their sustainable agricultural practices, including fallowing and agroforestry, and conservation practices have earned this model Himalayan hamlet global recognition. The direct intervention of the NGOs, together with government assistance, has helped in confidence-building measures in the community, specifically towards sensitizing them about the protection of natural flora and fauna in the area.
Rabeca, woman of her early sixties years old, resident in the city of Beira in Mozambique who loves knowledge, she seeks to learn and be apart from the most outstanding issues in society through the newspaper. Life so early took away the possibility of going to school but the taste for learning continued intact inside. On a quiet morning of February 20, 2022 my eyes landed on the Lady Fiddle in her noble workplace embracing the newspapers that the press beauty gifted him, my eyes gazed at the living museum full of stories by tell, but the most beautiful story I saw was stamped on the face of her little granddaughter who She gracefully listened to grandmother reading the most prominent society updates in newspaper.
Study is a big challenge to the blind students. But these students are trying to overcome it. I see this reality in Women's College, Agartala, Tripura, India.
USAID Champion for Change volunteer Faiz Sati launched “From the Earth to the Sea,” a volunteer organization focused on environmental degradation in Benghazi, Libya. He organizes weekend beach cleanups and tree-planting activities to beautify the community while teaching people about the impact of trash on the ecosystem.
To help children in Libya understand the impact of recycling and improper trash disposal on the environment, USAID distributed an Arabic translation of "Garbage! Monster! Burp!: How Some Smart Kids and a Friendly Monster Saved a Town by Tom Watson. USAID distributed "Lubaba and the Magical Garbage" to 2000 children in 22 municipalities in Libya. The books tell the story of working as a community to find responsible ways to dispose of trash and keep communities clean. Children in Benghazi received copies during a soccer match and a lesson on the importance of recycling.
TROFACO collaborates with schools, farmer groups, and local communities to plant trees in the tropics. This image is from a school in Kampot province, Cambodia. The pupils in the photo took seedlings from a small truck to a field, where they helped plant them. The school then assigned each class to take care of a group of trees. TROFACO pays out a cash award when we return to inspect the trees' growth. The funds contribute to the school's budget.
Climate Care Africa staff and well-wishers planned a tree planting drive at Kuoyo Kowee Primary School in Kisumu County, Seme Constituency, Kenya. The tree-growing drive helped teach students the importance of planting trees and taking care of them. The underlying lesson was that trees help improve environmental conditions, agricultural fortunes in the community, and the global climate in general. The idea behind this event was to develop a culture encouraging youths to take care of trees at school and at home. Once the students were taught the importance of growing trees, rather than just planting them and leaving them to grow by themselves, Climate Care Africa staff and the school fraternity planted 100 seedlings.
In this photo, Climate Care Africa’s Executive Director teaches the students about environmental conservation, specifically, tree growing. This activity helps absorb excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, thereby controlling global warming. The program is a Climate Care Africa initiative.
My team and I organized a cleanup of Bassam Beach in Côte d’Ivoire. The purpose was to educate the population on how plastic pollution can harm the ocean, marine life, and public health. As we do not have large organizations leading this, we must work with our local communities to address this problem
Taken on May 18, 2022, in Jinja, Uganda, this picture shows a woman and her colleagues from the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) at the Isimba Hydroelectric Plant in Uganda. About 30 employees from UEGCL were at the 188-MW Isimba Falls hydropower project (HPP) to get trained under an executive exchange on hydropower best practices by American experts. This project, located on the White Nile, was initiated by the Ugandan Government in 2013 and is one of its most important hydropower undertakings. Along with her colleagues, the woman pictured here gave experts from the Chelan Public Utility District, Moore Ventures, and Mead & Hunt a tour of the power station while experts spoke extensively on dam safety and water resource management. Under the Energy Utility Partnership Program, the United States Energy Association (USEA), with USAID Power Africa funding, has been helping improve Uganda’s energy generation by working closely with the UEGCL since 2017. Over the past five years, the program has prioritized building the capacity of Uganda’s hydropower plants through improving operations and maintenance, asset management, and dam safety. The country has an ambitious goal of achieving 80% of its electricity access by 2040 compared to a current access rate of about 30%, and most of it will be powered by hydroelectricity. However, Uganda is at risk of natural disasters and extreme weather events leading to disasters such as floods, droughts, and landslides that have increased over the last 30 years, hindering efforts.
Part of the goal of the GREENPEACE movement is to achieve "green cities." This photo was taken on June 05, 2022, and shows a group of cyclists aligned with the GREENPEACE movement gathered in front of the Lapu-Lapu monument before they begin a tour around Mactan Island. Wearing shirts with the message, "Fossil Fuel Free Before 2050," they seek to raise awareness about global warming as well as petititon for building a nuclear power plant on Mactan Island.
This groups' actions bring us closer to achieving the universal goal of climate neutrality.