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Episode 6 - Women's Empowerment: Mothers of the Forest
What is Women's Empowerment/Educating Girls?
According to Project Drawdown, "Education lays a foundation for vibrant lives for girls and women, their families, and their communities. It also is one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth. Women with more years of education have fewer and healthier children, and actively manage their reproductive health.
Educated girls realize higher wages and greater upward mobility, contributing to economic growth. Their rates of maternal mortality drop, as do mortality rates of their babies. They are less likely to marry as children or against their will. They have lower incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria. Their agricultural plots are more productive and their families better nourished.
Education ensures resilience, and equips girls and women to face the impacts of climate change. With education, girls and women can be more effective stewards of food, soil, trees, and water, even as nature’s cycles change, and they can have a greater capacity to cope with shocks from natural disasters and extreme weather events.
Today, there are economic, cultural, and safety-related barriers that impede 62 million girls around the world from realizing their right to education. Key strategies to change that include:
Who is Tracey West?
Tracey West, a UK based optimistic environmentalist and a passionate advocate for simple, green living.
In 2017, Tracey and husband Simon, co-founded an international reforestation charity, The Word Forest Organization, WordForest.org. Their NGO plants fast-growing trees, builds schools, facilitates education and supports women's empowerment in rural Kenya. Aside from the building, it does much the same in the UK but on a smaller scale. In 2019, they filmed and released #TreesAreTheKey narrated by Kate Winslet. The documentary highlights some of the positive impact of their work and also introduces the Mothers of the Forest, the incredible women who do an amazing job of taking care of the trees they plant in Kenya. Visit TreesAreTheKey.com to watch it.
In addition to her work with Word Forest, Tracey is an author and broadcaster on sustainable living. In 2009 she wrote The Book of Rubbish Ideas on ways to reduce your rubbish, be kinder to the planet and keep more money in your pocket.
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What is Women's Empowerment/Educating Girls?
According to Project Drawdown, "Education lays a foundation for vibrant lives for girls and women, their families, and their communities. It also is one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth. Women with more years of education have fewer and healthier children, and actively manage their reproductive health.
Educated girls realize higher wages and greater upward mobility, contributing to economic growth. Their rates of maternal mortality drop, as do mortality rates of their babies. They are less likely to marry as children or against their will. They have lower incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria. Their agricultural plots are more productive and their families better nourished.
Education ensures resilience, and equips girls and women to face the impacts of climate change. With education, girls and women can be more effective stewards of food, soil, trees, and water, even as nature’s cycles change, and they can have a greater capacity to cope with shocks from natural disasters and extreme weather events.
Today, there are economic, cultural, and safety-related barriers that impede 62 million girls around the world from realizing their right to education. Key strategies to change that include:
Who is Tracey West?
Tracey West, a UK based optimistic environmentalist and a passionate advocate for simple, green living.
In 2017, Tracey and husband Simon, co-founded an international reforestation charity, The Word Forest Organization, WordForest.org. Their NGO plants fast-growing trees, builds schools, facilitates education and supports women's empowerment in rural Kenya. Aside from the building, it does much the same in the UK but on a smaller scale. In 2019, they filmed and released #TreesAreTheKey narrated by Kate Winslet. The documentary highlights some of the positive impact of their work and also introduces the Mothers of the Forest, the incredible women who do an amazing job of taking care of the trees they plant in Kenya. Visit TreesAreTheKey.com to watch it.
In addition to her work with Word Forest, Tracey is an author and broadcaster on sustainable living. In 2009 she wrote The Book of Rubbish Ideas on ways to reduce your rubbish, be kinder to the planet and keep more money in your pocket.