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Climate Activism Actions

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 589434-EPP-1-2017-1-TR-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia Funder Contribution: 128,340 EUR

Climate Activism Actions

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Saint Vincent is one of the poorer island nations in the Caribbean and one of the world's most disaster prone countries. Global Warming means longer periods without rain. Only 7% of the farms in St. Vincent have irrigation systems. Water reservoirs and gray water systems need to be built and water conservation measures need to be taken to secure food production in the future. Climate Change means more flooding and hurricanes. In 2014 extreme weather hit St. Vincent and left thousands without public water, with heavy destruction of roads, bridges and houses and hundreds in shelters. The damages from the 2014 disasters alone equaled 17% of the small developing island nation’s GDP. An objective of the project was for volunteers from Europe to work side by side with people directly affected by the impoverishing effects of climate change. As a collaborative group of local and international climate activists, our volunteers will rise to the challenge of planting trees to prevent landslides, keeping rivers and drains clear to prevent flooding, starting organic home gardens to promote food security and teaching others how to be more prepared for Climate change at the same time to learn and be prepare for similar situations which are happening last years in Europe.Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building Project “Climate Activism Actions” combined new methodologies and tools creation; youth participation at ghlobal mobility of youth workers and European Voluntary Service activities in order to support sustainable EU and UN envorienmental goals for 2020. Public bodies, NGOs and social partners worked together to find the effective ideas and solutions and learned more on types of general climate actions and campaigns that can be carried out within cooperation. EVS from the practical implementation of actions were held in ST. Vincent for more participants. Transfer of innovations were implemented in Turkey, Lithuania during the Mobility of Youth workers for different age and social status people.Objectives:•to learn and implement climate actions •to explore community needs and to formulate innovations that will help as prevention•to build up competences and to start practice tools on climate entrepreneurshipSt. Vincent is an island nation, where is no economic surplus to budget for a short or long term environmental protection plan against landslides and erosion. The St. Vincent Climate Compliance Conference 2012 - 2021 is a new kind of environmental movement that seeks to educate, raise awareness and mobilize people to take action. Since the start of the program hundreds of people have received lessons, also supports the effort of soil conservation from the Forestry Department. The next innovation stems from the behavior changes and habit improvements of local people. On a long-term basis, people are mobilized to be part of projects that they saw a direct outcome from: they start to use homemade bio products instead of chemicals, they collected waste separately instead of littering the streets and farmers start to collect rain water in their gardens etc. These small, manageable steps helped make St . Vincent and the Grenadines sustainable and educated Europeans after their return to their homes, they started to adapt this useful knowledge to their envorienment and community. The reality of a small island nation like St. Vincent recieved already again some of the volunteers who have participated to EVS as climate activists and they are contiuning to contribute to St. Vincentian and their own communities.

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