Source: Save The Children
You can see rubbish everywhere. People don’t look after the environment, they don’t care, they just throw litter everywhere.
We should be more aware and we shouldn’t drop litter because it pollutes and harms the environment.
At school, at home, I recycle. At school, we recycle plastic bottles and cans. We sell them and collect money for the school. At home, we make handicrafts. For example, containers with cardboard, sticks, wood, plastic, and things like that. We store things, coins, pencils, etc.
I want to do a campaign in which once a week there are no cars, so people walk or cycle, so we protect the air and the environment and have less pollution.
They [an organisation of women] wanted to build a house, but they didn’t have any money and they saw here there were many containers, so they said why don’t we make a house of them? All day long, from morning to night, every day with a container, a stick, and we mixed sand. It was difficult but we kept building. There are more than 500 bottles and they were all done by hand by just women. It was a great goal to build this house. It was an ecological house.
One of my dreams is to have an association of empowered women and girls who come through and to do ecological handicrafts so people can see all that can be done with the things they consider rubbish, but it’s not.
I would like adults to learn that we can do many things with the stuff they throw away. We want to protect the environment because it’s our life, and the life of their children, of our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on.
There are many things I’d like to change in this world. First of all, inequity. For example, giving more opportunities to women. It’s very difficult for women to get a job, and if they get it, it’s a lower-income job than men. Men have executive and important jobs. So why can’t women?
Yes, I consider myself a feminist, always fighting for women to be equal to men. And I’ll never stop fighting.
The biggest change [in climate] I’ve seen was it was sunny one day and the next day, it rained really heavily. It seemed pretty abnormal.
When it rains, the rubbish is washed out. It smells bad and we can’t cross the bridge because it’s full of rubbish and it makes us sick.
I’m a bit scared when it rains heavily. I have been since I was a child. In the past, I lived in a house near a cliff. One day there was a storm. It rained so heavily that the house where I lived collapsed. So, we have to be very careful, one of those rocks could squash us!
Also, we’re affected because pipelines flood and we can’t go to school because we can’t cross over.
Water is also often scarce. We have to wait around eight to 15 days to get water. We have to recycle water so it lasts longer and things like that.
We can do something for climate change. We can help this world to be different, so there is more life and hope. We can change the world.
We have to protect this world because otherwise what’s the future for our children and for us.
