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“Waters dried and it was hard to find food”, recalls Taissa Kambeba an indigenous activist from CAMBECA town in Brazil
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The session allowed participants of all generations and coming from different parts of the world to share their experiences of climate change, but also to explain how they get information about the environmental crisis. Most of them recognized that social media is where they get their information.
Involving children in the conversation around climate was an important part of the panel discussion.“Children have important contributions to make, because their lives are constantly being violated due to climate change”, said Francisco Vera, a 14-year-old human rights defender. “We need to give them platforms to express themselves and we need to give them the tools to do so”.
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Mr. João Brant, Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, Brazil, empathized on the fact that “we need to give some answers”, to which Awo Aidam Amenyah, founder of Child Online Africa, added: “Let's bring the conversation down to the language they can relate to”.&Բ;
All the participants underlined the importance of empowering children as stakeholders.
Haris Buljubasic
