Rotary Club of Church Wilne Guest Speaker Evening
World Vision by Sue Tinney
On the 17th May
2021 members of the Rotary Club of Church Wilne were treated to an informative
and interesting presentation from Sue Tinney of World Vision on how the
organisation is combating climate change and is helping the young and
vulnerable to combat it and give them a voice to make their views known.
Sue informed
the members the bench mark was set out in the 2015 Paris Climate Summit. One of
its objectives was to give children a chance to be heard and introduced a
project to encourage youngsters to participate, make a difference and to take
part in the next summit scheduled for later this year. The summit also
acknowledged an increase in global hunger and highlighted that more must be
done to help the poorest become resilient to climate catastrophes'.
Climate change
has caused natural disasters such as floods, drought and famine with
consequences such as migration and homelessness through people fleeing their
homes. Two countries show contrasting causes of problems caused by climate
change. Mali in West Africa has suffered significant loss in food production
caused by drought. World Vision established projects and employed
agricultural engineers to train farmers to use different farming methods to
increase farm yields. It showed them tree management techniques, new methods of
planting and the use of drought resistant seeds to help them combat the drought
and become self sufficient. Over the last four years the lives and livelihoods
of the people in Mali have been rebuilt.
In contrast,
The Philippines have been severely affected by hurricanes, typhoons and
flooding. World Vision has worked with the populous and the authorities to give
training for disaster mitigation such as evacuating schools and other public
buildings and clean up initiatives following flooding. They were trained
in disaster reduction strategies and shown how to build better houses
with stronger structures to withstand these adverse events. The policy of world vision is that it is
committed to ensuring vulnerable people have a future and can adapt to the
problems caused by climate change. It is keen to give the younger generation a
voice and seeks to encourage them to use it..
The vote of
thanks was given by Rotarian Mick White who said we had learnt a lot and agreed
children must be engaged in combating this problem. It was heartening to see
that climate change was being confronted and positive action taken.
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