Contributors

Maro M. Maua (he/him) is a high level champion for climate action and Global Youth Advocate for SDG's, a volunteer at Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church and an LWF youth delegate for COP 27. Maro will discuss in the video the steps that the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church has taken for eco-justice, and the impact the local communities have made for creation care.

My name is Erick Kapira from Tanzania, LWF youth delegate at COP26 and COP27. Last year after attending COP26 I registered a COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION (CBO) under the Southeast Diocese (ÈLCT) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. We have implemented a small project sponsored by LWF called TOGETHER FOR GREENISH COMMUNITY, a project that aims to provide environmental conservation education to secondary schools and youth and the second project was MAZINGIRA NI UHAI. This project aimed to plant trees in hospitals, churches and schools.  


These are a few things I did for climate justice. This year I was fortunate to attend online the first session of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee (INC-1) to develop a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, held in Uruguay. 


I would like to highlight my small volunteer project that I manage called TFGM (TOGETHER FOR THE GREENISH COMMUNITY) I would like to highlight the project in the small aspect of plastic pollution. We will have young people who form my group called MAZINGIRA NI UHAI GROUPS which is under ELCA (EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN TANZANIA) and young people from the street. Carina Henry Marcellianusy is one of the leaders of this group.  We will make (WABA) WASTE AND BRAND AUDITS, we will collect data about the waste that leads in plastic pollution, these data will enable us to determine which product or company leads in environmental pollution, after that we will write a report and this report will help us to provide education in our society on environmental conservation, and it will also help us to call on companies, governments and various stakeholders to participate in environmental conservation. 

Gabrielle Thum

I’m a youth activist for climate justice, have been taking part of demonstrations and projects that educate about climate change. I’m part of the Pomerian People, so I advocate to protect my culture and identity, as well as for others traditional people and communities from Brazil. In the church, I’m the vice-coordinator of the Evangelical Youth National Council from IECLB. At college, I research about renewable energy, more specifically the wave energy.

Kunja Raj Kiran

Praise the lord! I have been ministering to Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church among the tribals in a remote tribal area in India for the last ten years. I would like to thank you for doing this project in your ELCA Young Adult Ministry which makes me very happy.