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In Zambia, 'Unite for Climate' youth ambassadors raise environmental awareness
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By George Githuma
MONGU, Zambia, 2 December 2010 – “I see more disasters such as floods if the current climate change trends do not change. Floods continue destroying schools [and] increasing levels of illiteracy as children drop out of school,” said Unite for Climate Zambia Ambassador Tambudzai Mutale, 17, in a recent podcast.
The podcast was part of a series broadcast in the run-up to the COP16 United Nations climate-change conference now under way in Mexico. This series aimed to illustrate the toll that climate change takes on the world’s children - especially those in developing countries.
The UNICEF-supported Unite for Climate Zambia programme equips young people like Tambudzai with advocacy skills to help them inform their peers and communities about the effects of climate change. With funding from ING, the Netherlands Committee for UNICEF and the Danish National Committee for UNICEF, the three-year programme launched in January and operates in all of the country’s nine provinces.
