From Dust to a Climate Action Hero.
Image credit: EAA In the barren and inhospitable Turkana region of northwestern Kenya, where nothing can grow without water, a young woman is giving life to the land and planting hope into the community. Though the winds are dry and the terrain is dusty, water is still more valuable than gold, and the young woman is carrying out her work to support agriculture in the region. She is an 18-year-old South Sudanese refugee named Cecilia Adol Adar, who has found shelter in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, which is the residence of over 300,000 displaced people . In a situation where it is often hard to think about the future because of daily struggles of survival, the young woman is making a name for herself not only through her positive attitude but also by the fact that she is raising a voice for climate justice and green innovation. Rising from the Dusty Displaced by conflict in her native South Sudan, Cecilia found herself in Kakuma as a child. But unlike many who saw the refugee camp as a...