Nigeria: Taking Strides

In the article "Meet the Young Woman Passionately Spreading the world on Climate Change in Nigeria", it tells a story about a 25 year old woman who has been a environmental sustainability advocate named Esther Agbarakwe. She's been to over 12 countries talking about climate change and the policy issues behind them. She says that climate change has affected Nigeria with disasterious effects in regards to changes in rainfall and season cycle. Agriculture, food production, and water supply are all adversely effected. in 2010 the Nigeria Meterological Agency predicted heavy rainfall which would bring more floods to the country which is why she is striving for Nigerians to become aware of climate change on top of many other reasons. Her organization works with young people in school in urban and rural areas by using local language and folk tales whereas in the suburban areas they use the English language and ICT tools.

Its great to hear stories like this especially considering the condition in Nigeria as it can be classified as a third world country. The country has gone through military dictatorship, corruption, sky rocketing oil prices, and POVERTY. It's nice to see a form of white light come out of everything and push for something that will also affect the entire world. Any human being living in similar conditions in Nigeria clearly have bigger issues to worry about than global warming and climate change. But even though the global North takes initiative as most countries are well established and functioning we will need help from second and third world countries as climate change also effects them. Having organizations helping out the youth in schools in suburbans and in urban areas definitely is a boost on awareness and we will need nations outside of the usual U.S, England, Sweden etc to push forward with addressing the issues. We can just hope to find more people regardless of gender everywhere to address the issues of climate change no matter what country there from. Hopefully stories like this can trickle into countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India where their is a huge problem in the environmental world their as pollution, toxic waste, and natural disasters have effected them dearly in the past couple of years.

http://www.bellanaija.com/2011/02/28/meet-the-young-woman-passionately-spreading-the-word-on-climate-change-in-nigeria-environmental-sustainability-advocate-esther-agbarakwe/