🚀 Calling all young innovators, activists, and youth-led organizations in East and Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)! 🌍 This is your chance to make a difference in Mental Health and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights outcomes for all adolescents and young people.
💡 Submit your innovative solutions to raise awareness and tackle the bi-directional linkages between mental health and ASRHR by August 17th, 2023, 5pm South African Standard Time, using the BrightIdea Platform: https://t.co/LxE2WI62QI
🌐 Let's empower youth leadership and drive positive change together! I believe in you. Share this call widely within your networks, and stay tuned for more updates on UNFPA's social channels. Join us in shaping a brighter future for the youth in East and Southern Africa. 🌈 #YouthInnovation #MentalHealthMatters #ASRHR #HackLab2023 #UNFPA #SafeguardYoungPeople
We have issued an emergency mobile alert that says:
Heavy rain and thunderstorms are affecting the Auckland region and expected to continue into the evening, potentially through to midnight tonight.
If your life or property is at risk, phone 111 immediately.
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Every year, the world loses 12 million hectares of forests through deforestation.
Indigenous peoples are on the frontline of global conservation efforts. But critical support is needed, as they continue to fight for our planet’s ecological well-being.
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“…and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you..” - 1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NIV)
Farming isn’t a battle against nature, but a partnership with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue. – Jeff Koehler
#Agriculture#Farmers#Agroecology
“What we know is that our climate gave our region a storm on a scale we’ve not seen.
Help us. Reduce your emissions. Push those in power to make change.
Don’t send us a cake and then let us drown again.” - @chrishydejourno#CycloneGabrielle#ClimateElection#climateaction
To preserve a livable climate, we must take action and vote for credible climate action plan, this action will play a part in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20% by 2030 and to net zero by 2060.
#Vote4Climate#Vote4climateNG#climatechange
Cyclone Gabrielle's left a path of destruction across the North Island overnight, bringing down buildings, flooding homes and triggering evacuations.
The Government's declared a national state of emergency, just the third in our history.
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