Building Potential to put Social and Environmental Justice at the Centre of Development
I am Wirsiy Emmanuel Binyuy and I work for Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW), a non-profit organisation based in Oku, Cameroon. CAMGEW works to sustain the environment to ensure that people are free from poverty and gender inequality. CAMGEW works on forest conservation, environmental education, apiculture, agroforestry and eco-businesses like women’s microcredit schemes and vocational training. This work is done with rural communities with little employment opportunities and with a high poverty rate. Women have fewer opportunities. I have been working on environmental issues for 15 years in Cameroon. From September 23-25 I participated in a reflection workshop organised by [...]