Today, we have two videos on the work of CARE in Copenhagen.  The first one features Cynthia Awuor, CARE’s regional climate change coordinator for eastern and central Africa. She explains the impact of climate change on Africa and especially the women living there. Cynthia has also written a letter to the negotiators at Copenhagen. Read it at the homepage of CARE Canada. In the second video, CARE’s international climate change adaption coordinator Angie Dazé will give an introduction to Community Based Adaption.

Cynthia Awuor on climate change in Africa and its impact on women:

Climate impacts on East and Central Africa from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Angie Dazé on Community Based Adaption:

CARE’s approach to CBA: Community-Based Adaptation from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

by Lee Webster

November 28, 2009

Today we’re in Kitgum, a small town about an hour’s drive from Pader.  Two coach loads of women have joined us from Pader, and today another coach of Kitgum women will join the caravan.  Today’s march through Kitgum town centre was exhilarating.  Local women came out to clap, cheer and dance us along our way. (more…)

by Lee Webster

One hundred women marched through the town of Pader to raise awareness for women’s rights (photo: CARE)

November 27, 2009.

Today our journey continues from Gulu to Pader – an hour and a half by road, dodging potholes and wandering cattle on the way.  Our party has grown.  Jenny (the photographer I am traveling with), Grace and I have been joined by Judith, CARE Uganda’s sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) focal point, and James, a local consultant who’s been hired to translate from Acholi to English for us. (more…)

by Lee Webster

“No small problem in Uganda”: violence against women is often invisible, but never acceptable (photo: CARE/Gignoux)

Lee Webster, from our CARE London office, is joining women activists, all survivors of rape, who are embarking on a four-day march from their home in the conflict-affected north to the capital Kampala to meet their politicians and say enough is enough. (more…)

A blog for Copenhagen

by Thomas Schwarz

Nairobi skies: Will there be rain soon? (photo: CARE/Freccia)

Last night, before I went to bed, I looked up to the skies. It seemed completely overcast by rainclouds. (more…)

by Thomas Schwarz

Even in Nairobi water becomes scarce (photo: CARE/Freccia)

It is not really hot in Kenya. At least not in Nairobi, where I arrived today. (more…)

by Sandra Bulling

A forest of mangroves on Pemba (photo: CARE/Bulling)

Sheik Mohammed Suleiman Tiwany is a very impressive man. He appears to be from another world, with his long white robe, his curly beard and his proud way of walking. (more…)

by Sandra Bulling

The CARE team gets muddy feet in the mangrove forest (photo: CARE/Bulling)

Sour and juicy is what Bungo tastes like, this fruit with a well-sounding name. Its yellow pulp is divided into small balls – each of them are the size of a small candy. (more…)

by Sandra Bulling

Pemba’s coast is a holiday dream for visitors, but it’s a livelihood for the local fishermen (photo: CARE/Bulling)

On the airport of Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, waits a Cessna, a small airplane, to take us to the island of Pemba. (more…)

by Sandra Bulling

Tabu, the chairwoman of the savings club “Mwanzo Mgumu” (photo: CARE/Bulling)

I arrive in the village of Turiani, the second destination on my trip to Tanzania. Turiani does not figure in my guide book, so I only have a rough idea of where we are heading. (more…)