Join young leaders from latin America on Monday 8 October at 5 pm Youth Hub - please bring a plate of food to share
Seven young leaders from Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia, are in Bellingen next week as part of a 5 week Climate Resilience Leadership training program. The program is building regional capacity to develop and deliver strategic initiatives targeting climate change adaptation and mitigation, particularly amongst vulnerable and marginalised groups.
The Program is managed and delivered by OzGREEN, working in partnership with Latin American grassroots organistions Project Seres and Opepa and supported by AusAID’s Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship (ALAF).
Almost 50% of population in Guatemala and ElSalvador is under the age of 18. Inter-American Development Bank identifies the LAC region as highly vulnerable to the detrimental effects of climate change, predicting dramatic changes in the region’s natural systems, affecting crop yields, the availability of water, energy production and irrigation (Analytical Framework for Climate Change Adaptation, 2010).
The risks are highest amongst the region’s poor, where over 17% of the population live below the poverty line.The young people are also participants in OzGREEN's Youth Leading the World (YLTW) initiative and are being trained to facilitate YLTW in Central and South America (including El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina).Youth Leading the World will run in over 50 locations simultaneously 27-29 November, including Bellingen and Coffs Harbour.
