#storytelling

🇶🇦 Qatar · Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar

A youth-run non-profit that has spent a decade turning Qatari and Arab youth into climate campaigners, carbon-trackers and environmental journalists.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Empatheatre

A KwaZulu-Natal theatre collective turns months of interviews with fishers, mining-affected families and marine scientists into immersive plays that put ocean governance decisions in front of the very communities they affect.

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Jo-Jikum

Marshallese teenagers turn traditional weaving and songwriting into climate advocacy that reaches all the way to COP summits.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Keiskamma Trust

In the small village of Hamburg, rural women turn embroidery, beadwork and applique into monumental tapestries that have hung in South Africa's Parliament and museums worldwide.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Radio Sucumbíos

For over three decades this community radio station has been the only daily source of news for six Indigenous nationalities in Ecuador's oil-scarred Amazon, turning listener call-ins about contaminated rivers and deforestation into some of the region's only sustained environmental journalism.

🇳🇿 New Zealand · Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust

Since 1982, whānau-run Kōhanga Reo language nests have immersed tens of thousands of Māori children in te reo Māori from birth, reviving a language once on the brink of loss.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Vídeo nas Aldeias

Since 1986, this Brazilian collective has put cameras in the hands of Indigenous filmmakers so their own footage becomes evidence and armor in the fight to keep Amazonian territories standing.

🇫🇲 Micronesia · Waa'gey

Master carvers on Yap's remote outer islands are teaching the next generation to hand-build ocean-going canoes and navigate by the stars, keeping millennia-old wayfinding knowledge alive.