 My name is Evelyn Acham, I'm a climate justice activist from Uganda. I work with Rise Up movement as the national coordinator and secretary and I'm also an active member of Fridays for Future and a member of Global Choices as an Arctic Angel. Together with the Rise Up movement, I'm working on a campaign which involves educating school students about the climate crisis and we are also hoping that one day the government will add to the climate education to the school curriculum because it's very important to teach the next generation about the climate crisis because the next generation belongs to the young people. The climate crisis affects everyone but some people are being impacted more than others like people from black and brown communities, communities in the global south and women and children. So in Africa women are responsible for putting food or cooking food in their homes and providing all this food especially in rural areas and villages and in Uganda personally, personally I'm from Uganda and Uganda heavily depends on agriculture for, so many people depend on agriculture for survival and yet agriculture depends on the climate, it depends on the natural systems but because of the climate crisis, weather patterns are disrupted and we are seeing prolonged droughts, we are seeing a torrential rainfall, we are seeing devastating floods and these floods are destroying people's crops. The prolonged droughts are drying up water sources and food sources and this is forcing women especially in rural areas to end up going longer distances because the nearby water sources, the nearby food sources have dried up so they have to walk very long distances to look for this food, to look for the water, to look for these basic needs to feed their children, to feed their families and as a result they are exposed to trafficking, they are exposed to violence as they are resting in these temporary shelters and we also see that because of the limited resources like food and water, this leads to conflicts in these places and the women are affected during this conflict. There are so many ways women can be empowered and one of the ways is educating these women, taking young women to school and encouraging them to stay in school. We see so many projects that are being done by different women groups like we see the Malala Fund which is providing education to so many girls around the world and encouraging girls to stay in school. This is one of the ways we are able to empower girls like we see project drawdown stated that educating a girl is one of the ways to achieve climate justice.