Climate Justice Match
Having earned a certificate on the Young African Leadership Initiative climate change course, my mind became open to environmental effects and climate change on society. Forced by this passion was witnessing an entire community in my city lost their properties to an unusual floods. Since then, I believed that one does not need to have a degree in Environmental Science to provide a support system for the environment. In May 2021, my colleagues and I started a plan to celebrate the World Environment Day with other institutions, high schools, and universities. Our plans included cleaning up the city of Monrovia and staging a Climate Justice walk accompanied by a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia. Additionally, supervised by an expert from the Liberia Geographers Association, we carried on a waste mapping process prior to the walk. This included highlighted major pollution sites in the city of Monrovia. Not being part of this process because of bereavement after all night of writing and planning still remain one of my greatest regret for not participating in an event. Nevertheless, I am happy that our idea worked out and our plans yielded fruition.