A stated aim of FutureLife-Now! is that it develops healthy and empowered young people who can lead responses to 21st century challenges, including those related to climate change. A good example of this in practice is the “climate change fair” that FutureLife-Now! hosted at Thetsane High School.
Thetsane, in the Maseru District, has participated in the FutureLife-Now! Programme since Phase 1, benefitting from its many initiatives. Now, in Phase 2 it serves as a hub of support to the “new” schools that have joined the programme. In this support role, the school invited five other FutureLife-Now! high schools in the district— Abia, Lesia, Masowe, Puthiatsana and St Catherine—to come together for a fair aimed at promoting youth empowerment. By enhancing their knowledge and capacity to address the risks of climate change, and by promoting youth-led climate-focused activities, the youth were galvanised to mitigate the effects of climate change on their vulnerable school communities. In the course of the day, schools competed against each other in the following categories: debates, an essay competition, quizzes and poetry, all as part of expanding their knowledge of climate change.
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Zabeta Ngoma is a determined Grade 10 pupil at Kapiri Day Secondary School, a rural school in the Kapiri District in Zambia. Having shown great promise academically, she was confronted by a challenge that threatened her scholastic journey.
Every day, Zabeta had to walk five kilometres to and then back from school as her family couldn’t afford the bus fare. The arduous trek was taking a toll on her mental wellbeing, and she was deeply unhappy. Then one day she attended a FutureLife-Now! club in which she found solace among friends and in the FutureLife-Now! facilitator, Renard Mwiinga.
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Bushu Secondary School, a modest institution located in Zimbabwe’s Shamva District, stands as a testament to the transformative power of community-led initiatives.
The reality of Bushu is that of a community operating within a socio-economic context marked by school dropouts due to the lure of artisanal gold mining, early marriage and substance abuse. Yet through its involvement in the FutureLife-Now! Programme, the school is emerging as a beacon of hope, confronting these challenges head-on.
The school’s proactive approach is exemplified by the recent self-initiated and self-funded “health service jamboree” it held in November. Over two hundred learners, parents and members of the community gathered together, providing the FutureLife-Now! country team and various of its partner organisations with a platform to disseminate vital information and foster community engagement.
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One of FutureLife-Now!’s priorities is to make sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services more accessible for the learners in schools. For many young people, accessing these services is a challenge mainly because the service delivery point—usually a clinic—is located too far from them. But for the youth attending FutureLife-Now! schools, the situation has changed!
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FutureLife-Now! has contributed significantly to systems-level changes in both education and health sectors by integrating climate change and health education into curricula, enhancing collaboration between sectors, empowering youth, advocating for supportive policies, and engaging communities. – Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC) Representative [interviewed for the rapid evaluation]
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19 de junho de 2024, Joanesburgo – A SECTION27 divulgou um novo relatório intitulado “Mudanças climáticas como um risco para os direitos humanos: um recurso para ativistas pelos direitos à saúde e à educação na África do Sul”. O relatório centra-se no impacto das alterações climáticas no acesso das crianças aos cuidados de saúde e à educação básica. Explora o estado actual dos direitos das crianças no contexto dos esforços de adaptação e mitigação das alterações climáticas e examina políticas destinadas a proteger os direitos das crianças num clima em mudança.
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As alterações climáticas e a pobreza constituem um ciclo vicioso, especialmente para as pessoas mais vulneráveis. Os efeitos das alterações climáticas levam à escassez de alimentos e de água, à perda de meios de subsistência, ao aumento da violência baseada no género e à redução dos níveis de educação. Esta última parte é especialmente preocupante, pois a educação é uma das maiores ferramentas de que as pessoas dispõem para escapar ao ciclo da pobreza. A UNICEF informou que metade dos 2,2 mil milhões de crianças do mundo correm “risco extremamente elevado” devido às alterações climáticas, incluindo o seu impacto na educação. Aqui está o porquê.
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19 juin 2024, Johannesburg – SECTION27 a publié un nouveau rapport intitulé « Le changement climatique en tant que risque pour les droits de l'homme : une ressource pour les militants des droits à la santé et à l'éducation en Afrique du Sud ». Le rapport se concentre sur l’impact du changement climatique sur l’accès des enfants aux soins de santé et à l’éducation de base. Il explore l’état actuel des droits de l’enfant dans le contexte des efforts d’adaptation et d’atténuation du changement climatique et examine les politiques visant à protéger les droits de l’enfant dans un climat en évolution.
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Le changement climatique et la pauvreté forment un cercle vicieux, en particulier pour les personnes les plus vulnérables. Les effets du changement climatique entraînent une pénurie de nourriture et d’eau, une perte de moyens de subsistance, une augmentation de la violence sexiste et une baisse des niveaux d’éducation. Ce dernier aspect est particulièrement inquiétant, car l’éducation est l’un des meilleurs outils dont disposent les individus pour échapper au cycle de la pauvreté. L’UNICEF a indiqué que la moitié des 2,2 milliards d’enfants dans le monde courent un « risque extrêmement élevé » face au changement climatique, y compris son impact sur l’éducation. Voici pourquoi.
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In general, people are motivated to do better when the efforts they have made are affirmed and they are given clear feedback about areas where they might improve. So it is with the 40 FutureLife-Now! Phases 1 and 2 schools, with the in-country team, collaborating with the Ministry of Education and Training, conducting principals’ progress sharing meetings during the schools’ winter vacation in July.
The team held four separate meetings, one in each of the four districts (Berea, Leribe, Mafeteng and Maseru) where the FutureLife-Now! programme is implemented. The meetings’ objectives were to ensure that the principals fully “own” the programme. As Kuleile Rantsane, the country manager notes, it surely shows something about their commitment that all 40 principals attended. The meetings provide a platform not only for reflection on how the programme is running, but also an opportunity for principals to collaborate and to share on progress made, best practices and lessons learnt.
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