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Emily B. N'Dombaxe Dola
Sustainable, Ethical & Eco-friendly Clothing

The fashion industry, especially "Fast Fashion", is responsible for huge environmental impacts, such as loss of biodiversity, climate change, pollution etc. This video is about how can we mitigate the harmful effects of clothing from a consumer view.

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Restoring the Lost Dominion

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Restoring the Lost Dominion

As a young 11-year-old girl in primary school, I was denied a right. Human-wildlife conflict around my area led to us being fearful, with children seeking to drop out of school for the sake of their safety. My personal school experience, which I’m proud to discuss, stretched my mindset and belief systems, making me who I am today. I envision a world where every child has a safe place to learn and a child’s education is not compromised by environmental factors like human-wildlife conflict, especially with ongoing climate change.

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The Witness, the Perpetrator, the Healer

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This is a walk through the writer's work-journal; a heartfelt exposition of her beginnings and processes in the field of environmental care and advocacy. Siting southern Nigeria and a northern region, she talks through the lenses of the land, the inhabitants and the government.

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Feeding the Earth

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Feeding the Earth

The Sustainable Development Goal 2 - Zero Hunger - was set in 2015 to tackle rising undernourishment. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this challenge. Climate Change threatens food production and quality. WHYFARM, an NGO that uses creative methods to engage young people in agriculture, was founded in 2015 in Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago. It teaches traditional farming techniques that protect the environment and human health, and technologies that optimize production to establish careers in the field and promote food security.

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Why Are You Like That?

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What would do you feel like if someone asked why you acted like you? This story delves into a facet of that question and shows how that question can let someone down and how they pick themselves up. It describes the intense and raw feelings of a lost girl. It also shows how one person's lessons and efforts can pick another person up.

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Is She Lucky to Get Only Her Branches Chopped?

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This story is about a schoolgirl and a tree beside her school. She enjoys the beauty of the tree from her classroom but one day the tree branches get chopped. Since the girl feels sad and also starts to feel the connection between humans and nature.

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Surviving the Environment Arena and Beyond: Maasai Mara Reserve

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New reforms to education in Africa are transforming learning opportunities for the continent's youth, but learners still lack access to relevant skills that will help them secure employment opportunities. What can be done? I am passionate about science, one of the things about science that drew me to it is the fact it's about the discovery of knowledge. I believe that Africa, and especially Kenya, has all the resources that it needs to keep its people healthy, yet people are not enjoying the best health. One way that I believe I can solve that problem is by researching medicinal plants because I believe we have those resources we just need to find out the compounds in plants that we can utilize to keep ourselves healthy. Everything that we need to be healthy is provided to us by nature, we just have to tap through research and also by educating people on how to apply those principles and knowledge that we learned from research into being healthy. I envision a world where there is equality, quality education, improved health services for all, and good, effective and transformative leaders.

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Forest In The Stomach

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Food is vital for survival, so making money of it comes with a sweet feeling knowing one can pay bills easily. The rural livelihood is always linked to the forest, putting the forest at the expense of risk. Should we eat at the forest's expense? Or, should the forest be preserved while the people starve? This is the current situation that has put the Indigenous people of Onigambari forest reserve communities in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria, in a dilemma over the past years of their existence.

Forest in the stomach is about actions that balance both forest and farming to coexist together in an environmentally sustainable manner.


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Accelerating Kenya's 10% Forest Cover by 2022

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Accelerating Kenya's 10% Forest Cover by 2022

My story is about putting the people/community first in environmental conservation and management. The community needs to be provided with the requisite knowledge and tools to enhance tree seedlings production. This will make it possible for the country [Kenya] to attain its 10% forest cover by 2022. There are various initiatives we put in place to help us achieve the target.

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