Climate change

“It is affecting us a lot, in our community Lake POOPÓ has dried up, we no longer have flamingo, nor the silverside. It is dry. We hope that Mother Earth wants to return the water to Lake POOPÓ, because the communities on the riverbank are suffering without water. We have no water, there is no irrigation”

“Ancestral communities like the Uros Chupaes who lived from hunting and fishing are now migrating to all places: to Oruro, Argentina Chile, but they are country people who have not left their community and do not know what to do in the cities, these situations make us women very sad. They have had to transform their livelihoods, some sell leftover totora crafts, make key chains, little boats. Sometimes, people from the city don’t appreciate these crafts very much, so they reach out and ask for alms, that’s very sad.”

“We are very sad in Oruro because of this situation, hopefully the RAMSEN commission that will evaluate the situation of the lakes, will give us solutions, and God willing, Pachamama wants to fill Lake POOPÓ again”

“The drought of Lake POOPO, to that has contributed the diversion of the rivers Mauri and Desaguadero, also has contributed the contamination of the mining companies, the San Juan de Dios river, is contaminated with heavy minerals and that affected the CC and the drought of the lake.

“Before there was a cold season from June to August, and the wind from August to September, but now any day, at any time it is cold, it snows, we cannot follow the agricultural calendar as before and that is very sad for the indigenous people, we do not even know when to sow and that worries us”

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“It affects us all, the children, the women and the men too, although they don’t worry much. These days, we don’t have water in our community and it affects us a lot, there’s nothing to plant, so we have to harvest the water and it confuses us, that’s what I wanted to share.”

“We live in communities affected by floods, year after year we suffer evictions because of the waters, we have to look for where we can be in October, praying that this does not happen”

“In Honduras, there are massive groups that emigrate to other countries, including the United States, Spain, among other countries, due to the lack of life, there is no security, health, education, this situation is very difficult. The government has formed groups that call it a better life, it is only for their people their political color”

“The consequences of climate change directly affect us farmers due to the imbalance that this has generated in the natural environment, due to prolonged summers and erratic rains, which puts production and people’s health at risk, and even the loss of flora and fauna.”

“For indigenous women it has been an overload of work since we don’t have water, we have had to emigrate to the city, and that is very sad, before we got married we fished, we lived from hunting and fishing and now they are migrating to different countries, some with more or less luck, but some have to beg, that is also an effect of climate change”

“Specifically to women, we are harmed by extractivism, and RENAMAT has identified environmental violence against women, the right to life, to work, to the economy, to education, to land and territory, which pollution has deprived us of, is violated”

“Do you know why we say that women are more affected because we are overloaded with work, we have to look for water for our families, and our livestock and we have to rent land for the animals and take them, then we are the first to be affected, we touch the water, women are the target of everything, and when the mining companies come there are foreigners and harass women, and there are rapes that go unpunished, we women are always left in the middle of this climate change, and how our governments are extractivist and capitalist they are complicit in the damage that companies do in our territories, and so cell phones are manufactured with mining companies, and we are all involved there, that is why I want to ask you not to be so consumerist, not to have 3 cell phones, 2 laptops, because the powers at the COP have already been asked to lower greenhouse gas emissions and they said no, rather they preferred to reforest, but how long will that take, urgent measures must be taken, and governments take false solutions. They offer false solutions, we are the most affected by being in charge of our houses and our lands, and sometimes the men leave, and we are left in charge of the CC, the issue of mega mining is violating our rights.”

“Because of the fires, without the men’s jobs, women have felt forced to look for other jobs. In addition, the leaders have been violated, this whole situation burdens them with their family issues, and obviously because of the system we live in, men accuse them of abandoning the home, and the issue of the TIPNIS highway is a very strong issue in the Amazon, the construction companies, the companies, come to violate women and destroy the forest and in the end we are the most affected”

“Because we carry the babies, we are concerned about the care of everyone, even the animals, the gaps of inequality between men and women, in this case the tasks of care, grow before the CC and so we do a lot and we are not politically positioned, and there is little listening to women and thus we will continue to be affected, since education differentiates us and so many issues are more marked in this”

“We have been on the subject of CC to face the effects it inflicts on us, and in the gardens, training in CC, gardens and reforestation, and how to take care of the mangroves, betting on mitigations, reforestation and restoration, that is what we work on with our colleague Mirna, and how to face CC, that has harmed us in how it destroys and contaminates us, not only in Honduras, it is a global problem”

“We work in family gardens, in the planting of mollusks, since here in the gulf the problem of chemicals causes that to be lost, there was also an order on no tableware in the municipality, with the turtle ban, but it was not approved, we are working on that. We are fighting so that more women can work with the same objective”

“Adaptation and crop diversification measures. Rescuing our ancestral seeds, medicinal plants, taking care of water sources”

“We have decided to make urban gardens and bring the countryside to the city, as a result of that came the idea of ​​making worm composters, there is also the idea of ​​urban apiaries, and we have not developed that very much but we want to learn more”

“It is also important to make ourselves heard, and not just be satisfied and make the garden and that’s it, but to make ourselves heard, and support groups and movements that fight for some things, without violence but supporting each other and giving more voice to the problems we have in the communities, and to make an environmental network, that works like the networks of violence”