WOMEN PRESENTATION

Young women and their fight for water

Women and water

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Having access to clean water is an essential aspect that concerns the whole world. We have enough water to achieve this goal, but still today many people, especially children, die of diseases due to access to non-potable water. By 2030 we must make water drinkable, but above all accessible to all inhabitants. We can only achieve this goal if all the inhabitants do one small action a day.

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Even if it's not so much about water problems, if we talk about activists, we certainly cannot fail to mention Greta Thumberg. Greta Thunberg is a Swedish activist, known for her battles in favor of sustainable development and against climate change. He received social media attention for his demonstrations held in front of Stockholm's Riksdag, under the slogan "Skolstrejk för klimatet" (School strike for climate). Greta Thunberg has inspired a large number of young people in what has been called "the Greta effect". In response to her protests, several politicians recognized the need to focus on climate change. On August 20, 2018 Greta decided not to go to school until the legislative elections on September 9, 2018. The decision for this gesture was born due to the heat waves and forest fires that hit her country during the summer. She wanted the Swedish government to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change and sat in front of the Swedish parliament every day during school hours. Even after the elections, Greta continued to demonstrate every Friday, launching the international student movement Fridays for Future. Her Friday strike attracted media attention in several countries and similar demonstrations were staged in other countries, including the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark and Australia.

GRETA THUNBERG

Mary Copeny is an African-American youth activist from Flint , Michigan .She is best known for raising awareness about the Flint water crisis and for fundraising to support underprivileged children in her community and across the country. When she was 8 years old , she wrote a letter to Obama in order to draw attention to the water crisis in her hometown of Flint. On May 4, 2016, Obama visited Flint to see closer up the devastation to the lives of Flint's citizens as a result of their lead-poisoned water supply and authorized 100 milion of dollars to fix the crisis. she addressed a large crowd at the "Stand Up to Trump" rally in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., telling them that, during his 2016 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump promised the people of Flint, including herself personally, that he would fix the water crisis. In 2018 , Copeny and Pack your Back teamed up again for The Little Miss Flint & PYB Water Drive, a GoFundMe crowdfunding effort to raise money for bottled water, as the state's free bottled water program for Flint residents had been discontinued by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.

MARY COPENY

Xiye Bastida is a 19-year-old climate justice activist based in New York City. She is an organizer with Fridays For Future and the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative, an international youth-led organization that focuses on highlighting the intersectionality of the climate crisis. Bastida was born in Mexico and was raised as part of the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community. For the first climate strike in March 2019, she mobilized 600 students from her school and has taken a citywide leadership role in organizing climate strikes. Bastida was the recipient of the 2018 UN Spirit Award and currently attends the University of Pennsylvania.

XIYE BASTIDA

Autumn Peltier is a Canadian activist who lives in the Anishinawbe territory of Manitoulin Island in Ontario; although this is rich of lakes and pure water sources, there are many problems for the water even in here, especially because of its pollution caused by oil extraction or the numerous water grabbing phenomena in which some companies take the water of this area. In front of the injustices to her land and its people, Autumn, who was just a child, decided to rebel. With the help of her aunt Josephine Mandamin, a long-standing activist for the right to drinking water, she began to help organize protests. Her strength and determination were recognized by the tribal leaders, so she soon became a symbol in the war to access to clean water for all communities. After four years of traveling and protesting, Autumn finally had the opportunity to make the voices of her people heard. In 2016 Autumn toke part in the Annual Assembly of the First Nations, in which she made a thing that made her famous all over the world: she offered to the Prime Minister,Justin Trudeau, a cup full of water and said:“I am very disappointed with the choices you made.” Then she started crying. Today Peltier has a clear plan for the future: she wants to study law at university and become environment minister or prime minister. Although initially her own site was only to defend the right to water in her land, today the girl's intentions and messages have spread all over the world.

AUTUMN PELTIER

Autumn Peltier

we can't drink money or oil, we have to do everything we can for water. Even fight