Here is CARE’s Secretary General Robert Glasser giving a speech in Copenhagen downtown on yesterday’s humanitarian day. The day also highlighted that women and children in developing countries already spend hours every day fetching water. Climate change means that they will have to walk even further as wells dry up. To draw attention to this fact, the opening was followed by a youth solidarity event where Danish school girls carried carry water containers. They walked from Kongens Nytorv all the way to the Bella Centre – about 6 kilometres. Danish-Zambian singer Karen Mukupa sent the girls off with a song.

CARE at Humanitarian Day from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo. (more…)

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.

Adolphine Byayuwa Muley is one of CARE’s experts from the south. She is the founder of UEFA, a non-profit organisation working to assist marginalised and indigenous groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hear her talk about her advocacy work in Copenhagen on behalf of those groups in the following video:

Hopes at COP15 for indigenous women from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.

Sofia Sprechmann, deputy director for CARE Latin-America and the Caribbean, talks about the women and climate change. Women make up 70 percent of the global poor and will be heavily affected by climate change.

Women & climate change from CARE & Climate Change on Vimeo.