The Green Girls Platform proudly hosted the Climate Justice for Her Workshop under the theme “Building Climate Negotiators Across Generations” at Kumudzi Centre, Lilongwe, an empowering space where voices, courage, and leadership came together. Through our E-STEM for Climate Action Project, funded by Trócaire Malawi, we brought together 10 girls from Bunda Primary, Kambewe Primary, and Chiseka CDSS, linking them with mentors from our Young Women Group of Climate Negotiators Programme.

This intergenerational exchange was intentional, recognizing that the climate challenges we face today span generations and the solutions must also be intergenerational.

The workshop featured sessions on climate justice, climate negotiations, and a negotiation simulation exercise. During the mock negotiations, the girls stepped into real negotiation spaces, gaining hands-on experience of how climate negotiations work, building confidence, and boldly articulating climate justice issues that directly affect their lives and communities.

The girls and young women were not just participants; they negotiated, challenged, and led! This is how leadership is nurtured! This is how confidence is built! And this is how climate negotiations become inclusive, representative, and transformative!

Climate Leadership Starts Here! We are so excited to watch these incredible young negotiators grow and shape a just and sustainable future for all.

In Salima, specifically in T/A Kabumbu 1 village, the cycle of recurrent floods & dry spells isn’t just an agricultural problem, it’s a deep emotional and economic burden, especially for young women and girls. We, at the Green Girls Platform, are thrilled to announce the launch of the Eco-Anxiety Project!

Creating Safe Spaces for Healing and Rebuilding

Over the next three to six months, our goal is clear: to create safe and supportive spaces for 50 girls and young women in the community.

These spaces are vital. They offer a place to recharge, rebuild self-confidence, and process the profound emotional toll that constant climate instability takes on mental health. By addressing this eco-anxiety, we empower participants to shift from feeling overwhelmed to being ready to take decisive climate action.

Beyond Emotion: Equipping Women for Economic Resilience

Emotional support is only half the solution. In a community of hardworking farmers, the ability to thrive economically is the ultimate form of resilience.

That’s why the Eco-Anxiety Project includes a crucial component focused on empowerment: we will be equipping 30 young women with essential business and financial skills. This practical training is designed to give them a real competitive edge before the next farming season even begins. By strengthening their financial foundation, we help safeguard them against the vulnerability that climate-induced poverty often creates.

A huge thank you to everyone who supported us through the Raffle for Resilience and to our key partners, the Global Resilience Fund. Your dedication ensures that these young women and girls are not just surviving climate change, but leading the response to it.

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To end the year on a healthy note, the Green Girls Platform team took a trip to Cape Maclear in Mangochi with support from @mamacashfund for “Collective Care”. A healthy staff = a successful organization. The retreat helped the team to get to know each other better by understanding each others weak and strong spots. It also helped the team to reflect on how the year went as far as what our successes were and what we need to do, to do better. With that being said, Green Girls Platform is ready for 2023 and ready to make a bigger impact!

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16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence engagement with students from Mitundu Primary School. Green Girls led by the members created a friendly space where the students had discussions around Gender Based Violence, it’s causes and how best young people can engage in combating or overcoming GBV issues. To raise more awareness on GBV, there was a debate that was conducted among the students as a strategy to demand better legal safeguards and services to permanently end violence against girls and women.