As interns at the conservation organization WWF, Lameez Eksteen and Imelda Haines share a respect and love for the environment. They speak about their hopes for the future while they prepare an organic lunch for the WWF staff to celebrate World Environment Day.
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Cooking an organic lunch for World Environment Day.
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Over 200 tree planters, tree lovers and huggers came together in the ancient Platbos forest outside Cape Town to help expand the woodland. Farming, alien vegetation and climate change has reduced the once sprawling canopy to a forest relic. Local tree planting organization, Greenpop, brought together volunteers of all ages who made a weekend of digging, planting, mulching and dreaming of new canopies as they set 2001 indigenous trees in the ground. This Radio Workshop was co-produced by young planters Claire, Gustav, Daniel, Jasmine and Ayanda.
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Young planters conducting interviews at Platbos.
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The Zambian Children’s Climate Conference is an inspiring event. It’s a place where more experienced Climate Ambassadors share their ideas and strategies for success with new youth joining the UNICEF initiative. Youth Facilitator Tambudzai Mutale is 19 years old. She tells younger climate warriors how she started a project to build a floating school in Mongu, which is badly affected by floods during the rainy season in Zambia.
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The latest climate change conference COP17 ended without any many achievements. While world leaders failed to agree on a new solution to global warming, there are many ordinary people like you and I who are doing something about it everyday. We hear from them in this episode of the Radio Workshop and how climate change affects their lives.
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Sindiswa Nobula with WWF Chair, Vallie Moosa at COP17
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Today’s podcast has been created in partnership with Unicef’s “Unite for Climate” campaign. On it, we’ll hear young people in Zambia and around the world talking about climate change — what it is to them, how it affects their lives, and what they’re doing about it. We’ll also hear their advice to the world’s leaders coming together at the end of November for the COP16 meeting in Mexico.
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Welcome to the show!
Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.
Audio Declaration from youth climate ambassadors
First we’ll hear recommendations from youth climate ambassadors to the world’s leaders at last year’s COP15. But what is COP, you may ask? We talk about this and other ABC’s of climate change.
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Climate change to me
Next on our show, youth from Lusaka and Mongu, Zambia share their ideas about what climate change means to them, and what they feel they can do about it.
Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!
Interview of Kapambwe Chanda
17 year-old Kapambwe Chanda thinks that it’s crucial for youth to be more involved in climate change mitigation, and she has plenty of suggestions for all of us.
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Inspired to action
15 year-olds, Perry Sinkonde and Luyando Katenda have figured out ways that they can help fight climate change in their communities.
Spreading the message
17 year-old Esther Kalenga hosts a radio show about climate change at her community radio station, Radio Liambai in Mongu. What impact does such a radio show have on her community, she asks the show’s producer, Mundia Mundia.
Protecting Creation
18 year-old Tambudzai Mutale interviews a local priest in Mongu about what the church is doing to help fight climate change.
Message to the World’s Leaders
15 year-old Luyando Katenda isn’t pleased with the results of COP15, and implores the world’s leaders to make responsible choices at COP16.
Children’s Climate Forum: committed
You may have already listened to the first half of the audio declaration by the youth at last year’s Children’s Climate Forum, requesting action from their leaders. Let’s hear what commitments they themselves are willing to make to fight climate change.
Wrapping up
That’s it for this week, join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show!
This podcast has been a production of Unicef’s Unite for Climate campaign. Unite for Climate is an online community of young people from all around the world working together on Climate Change. Unite for Climate will be a participating member at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico and ready to share the knowledge received globally with interested youth.
The Radio Workshop recently took part in Unicef’s second Zambian Climate Change Conference and worked with young Zambians to produce their own radio stories. In today’s show we hear young people’s views about a range of issues. These include teenage girls women being married off to older men; garbage disposal; the impact of poverty; short-sighted planning by adults and drug abuse.
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Welcome to the show!
Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.
We’d love to hear from you—send us an email at info@radioworkshop.org!
Signing out
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Youth media crew captures community activism by Vanessa Njovu and Michal Rahfaldt
Sixteen year-old Daniel Sichinga gathers a group of young Zambian Climate Ambassadors under a tree to record a radio talk show. He asks one of his guests, seventeen year-old Tendai Nyirenda, about climate change issues in her community. “Zambia is the second most deforested country in the world, and Livingstone is one of the cities that has been most affected,” says Tendai. “So as a climate ambassadors we have identified that problem and are coming up with possible solutions.”
Daniel and Tendai are delegates at UNICEF’s second Zambian Children’s Climate Conference (ZCCCII) held this week in Lusaka. More than 90 Zambian Climate Ambassadors – all under 18 years of age and from all of Zambia’s 9 provinces – are sharpening their advocacy skills and gaining new skills, including how to be HIV and AIDS peer educators.
Working with the Children’s Radio Foundation, sixteen of the young ZCCCII delegates form part of the press crew for the conference, and are reporting on the happenings of the event. Using audio recorders, video, cameras, and blogs, the young people are being trained to capture the experiences of climate change and HIV/AIDS of young Zambians and to document the efforts of their peers to make a difference in their local communities.
Organizing radio talk shows, conducting interviews, taking photos, writing feature articles on climate change, and filming the proceedings of the conference, the young reporters load their footage on to uniteforclimate.org, an online portal for youth climate change activism.
Fifteen year-old Lusaka resident Ceswa Mpandamabula is part of the press crew. He says that media is an essential tool in addressing the youth around important issues. “We’re living in a time where technology has taken over everything. But only young people in cities usually have access, and most areas are not developed. But radio is everywhere in the country, and it’s a great way to talk to a lot of people from all different situations.”
Ceswa conducted radio interviews with several of his peers, and found out about specific HIV/AIDS scenarios in various Zambian communities. “It was really great to do an interview,” he said. “When you get to interview someone, you’re learning from them. And it’s good to learn that the same message you’re hearing from someone, you’re also sharing with it many people on radio, so we’re all learning.”
The conference is focused on getting young people to develop climate change and HIV/AIDS advocacy campaigns to bring back to their community, and to groom young Zambian leaders as peer educators.
To hear some of the audio and see photos from the event, visit the Children’s Radio Foundation’s broadcast website: www.radioworkshop.org.
The Government of the Republic of Zambia and UNICEF are currently hosting the Zambian Children’s Climate Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. The national conference is the first of its kind in the world since the international Children’s Climate Forum was held last November in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The conference brings together nearly 200 children from all nine provinces of Zambia. The participants are being educated about climate change issues and are attending a series of adaptation and mitigation workshops in order to create work plans that they will begin implementing when they return to their home districts.
Youth Delegate Profile: TendaiNyirenda
In the past few months many areas of Zambia experienced terrible floods that caused widespread devastation. Children in affected areas were not able to get to school and education was disrupted, and some children drowned in the floodwater.
16 year old Tendai Nyirenda hails from Livingstone, in the south of Zambia. She says that young Zambians need to work together to combat the effects of climate change.
Youth Delegate Profile: Stan Lengwe
As they are the most vulnerable, children will face the brunt of the impacts of climate change in the future. Many of the main killers of children, including malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition, are highly sensitive to climatic conditions and are expected to worsen as the world gets warmer.
Stan Lengwe is 16 years old, and is in Grade 11 at Kabulonga High School in Lusaka. He says that garbage collection in his city leaves much to be desired, and that poor sanitation contributes to the health problems of young people.
Youth Delegate Profile: Wilfred Simbule
Children are also important in getting the message across about climate change. The knowledge and skills that young people require to address the rapidly changing environment are often different from what they learn in school. The Zambian Children’s Climate Conference teaches young people that they can do their part to address climate change in their communities, and that they need to work hard to capture the attention of their peers.
Wilfred Simbule is 15 years old and a student at Chingola High School in the Copperbelt region. He says that the mines in his area contaminate the drinking water, and that it is important to educate his peers about water safety and other local environmental issues.
Unicef Regional Director Mr. Elhadj Amadou Gueye Sy
Fourteen year old Luyando Katenda from Lusaka interviews Unicef Regional Director Mr. Elhadj Amadou Gueye Sy about Unicef’s commitment to climate change.
Listen to Unicef Regional Director Mr. Elhadj Amadou Gueye Sy’s full speech at the ZCCC here:
Unicef Zambia Country Representative Lotte Sylwander
Fourteen year old Luyando Katenda from Lusaka interviews Unicef Zambia Country Representative Lotte Sylwander about local climate change issues.
The Children’s Climate Forum is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 165 youth delegates from over 44 countries are representing the young people of the world in the lead up to COP15. We gave young people audio recorders and asked them to document the experience.
In this interview, Zakaria Merdi, a 16-year old from Agadir, Morocco, speaks to 14 year-old Hamza Aaras El-Gouriti about global climate justice. Zakaria asks Hamza about “the role of developed countries” in helping out countries with less means to deal with climate change issues (in English).
Want to know more about the Children’s Climate Forum and COP 15? Click here to visit Unite for Climate!
On the first day of the Children’s Climate Forum, fifteen year-old Axam Maumoon from Maldives interviews fellow countryman Mohamed Ansar about climate change concerns in their country. The Republic of the Maldives is in the Indian Ocean, and consists of 1,197 low-lying islands.
Mohamed told Axam that “it’s not fair” that his country has to suffer so much from climate change. Listen to the full interview here.
The Children’s Climate Forum is currently taking place in Copenhagen, where 160 youth Delegates from 40 countries are representing the young people of the world in the lead up to COP15. Want to know more about the Children’s Climate Forum and COP 15? Click here!
