Climate change is putting millions of lives in danger, through increased air pollution, rising sea levels, extreme and erratic weather, drought and floods, and the melting of the polar ice caps. 2020 was the hottest year on record. And Climate Change hits the vulnerable the hardest.

In the vulnerable communities where Traidcraft Exchange works, no one asks "Is climate change real?   They ask "What do we eat now floods and droughts have destroyed our crops and washed away our homes?"

Mwanaidi is bold, resilient and innovative, but with increasingly long seasons of drought threatening her crops, it's getting harder for her to make even a basic living..She lives in a coastal region of rural Tanzania, and every day, she faces the reality of climate change.

“This year the floods have caused the cashew trees to die, our maize and rice were swept away by water and at the end of the rains we don’t have anything to eat. This is the fourth year I am witnessing these floods and our food swept away.” (Mwanaidi ).

Monira lives in Bangladesh -home to 160 million people, and among the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. “All my life I grew up seeing six seasons in my country. But now the hot season is so long, it's burning all the time. Winter comes for a very short time and too late, so we cannot grow vegetables like before.There are many frequent cyclones.The monsoon season begins when it is time to harvest. Due to the sudden rains our crops get ruined! During the last cyclone, our trees fell to the ground and our houses collapsed and  all the crops were destroyed in the cyclone. We are already very poor, and this climate change is making our days miserable. 

Mwanaidi, Monira and others like her are fighting back against the climate crisis. They are the Regenerators.

Together, they are taking a stand against climate change – by planting crops that can grow in extreme weather, protecting the forests and investing in climate-smart technology. Please donate to help them regenerate their land and protect the earth for generations to come.
Donate by 7th June 2021, and the UK government will DOUBLE all donations made to the appeal!

Read more  about the Regenerators at
www.traidcraftexchange.org/regenerators

Thank you from Barbara  and Mary.

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