"The rain has failed for 3 years. The only working well is 4.5 km away and the river is dry. They say the water is polluted and we shouldn’t drink it, but what choice do we have?" Hipolito, Las Joyas, Nicaragua
Amos Climate Justice seeks to develop a greater understanding of how to support highly impoverished rural communities as they face the impact of climate change.
Over the next 5 years we will be supporting seven rural communities in Teustepe, Nicaragua through our long-term partner CEPAD – a vibrant community-led organisation working with communities to identify their needs and provide training and resources, equipping communities to become self-sustaining.
Their needs include access to electricity, water and healthcare; better roads, farming skills, leadership training, youth work and women’s economic development.
Join us and journey with the people of Teustepe.
Our range of resource and fundraising packs, blog posts, downloads and products have been produced to help you find out more about Amos Climate Justice.
For our fifth episode of A Dozen Tuesdays we headed to Nicaragua where Amos Trust’s Karin Joseph was live in Teustepe with CEPAD Director Emily Reyes and Field Workers Harold Blandon and Joel Rodriguez, to celebrate CEPAD’s 50th anniversary. Emily, Harold and Joel updated us on their current work — particularly their new five-year programme with seven new communities around Teustepe in the Baoco region that Amos supports.
At Amos, we review the year each January and share our highlights. 2024 was an incredibly busy year and it was often a struggle to feel hopeful with all that was happening in Palestine. Looking back however, we were able to see so many glimmers of hope. Here are just a few of our highlights for 2024. Here’s to more Stories of Hope in 2025.
In our first blog post of the year, you will read about some of the occasions in 2024 when we heard about the ‘other world’ taking a breath. Sometimes, it was a long, deep gasp of air, others a rattly asthmatic cough. We are working with some great people on plans for 2025, which we are excited about and look forward to sharing with you soon but for now, below are some of our highlights from 2024.
At COP26 in November 2021, we spoke to several young female climate activists from the Global South. They have expressed that their solidarity, spanning thousands of miles, inspires them to make a change in their communities. They were enthusiastic about more connection and a more structured opportunity to connect in solidarity and collaboration, which led to the development of the Amos Trust Climate Fellowship.
We Do Hope regulars, journalist Jessie McDonald and director/producer Tilly Reith, chat to climate activist Disha Ravi from India. Disha’s work involves organising activism around climate and environmental education and promoting understanding of the issues of intersectional climate justice.
Our Digital Gift Certificates are an ideal present for those hard-to-buy-for friends and relatives in your life. Gifts include shelter packs for families in Gaza, food vouchers for families in Bethlehem, life skills programmes for young women in South Africa and wetland clean-ups for communities in Mexico. Prices range from £10-£50.
Meet the Amos Trust Climate Fellowship 2022/23 cohort. Since 2019, Amos Trust has been having conversations and learning more from women climate justice activists in the UK and worldwide. We’ve been exploring the importance of women-led and feminist models of leadership. We know so many young women are already taking the lead, and we want to partner with them to amplify the conversation.
Planting a seed represents the embodiment of hope and the promise of new growth. Join us as we begin to journey with seven new rural communities in Teustepe in Nicaragua and plant your seeds in solidarity with Rosa, Edwin and José, and the communities in which they live. Full details.
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