Zeinab Musa Adam - Kenya

Worldwide Fund for Nature
Generating Sustainable Livelihoods and Environmental Conservation and Women Empowerment for Riparian and Global Communities

It is estimated that over 35 million people whose livelihoods are directly dependent on Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi are facing a great threat due to environmental degradation. Zeinab’s project will tap the key principles of Education for Sustainable Development as a strategy for achieving sustainable environmental management and improved livelihoods. In order for the communities to stop degrading the Lake Victoria Catchments they have to be exposed to sustainable alternative livelihoods to alleviate poverty. Women are the ones who mostly bear the brunt of poverty, hence they need to be trained on basic life skills with particular emphasis to HIV/AIDs, reproductive health and family planning, hygiene and sanitation, food security and nutrition, ecological and socio-economic equality and equity, gender and girls/ women empowerment and constitutional, democratic and human rights issues. Zeinab’s personal and professional experiences have reinvigorated her passion for the work she is doing and inspired her to make the most in integrating environmental conservation, women empowerment and sustainable development.
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