The Impact of Environmental Changes on Health: Food Security and Hunger

by Tharien van Eck, Health Team Co-Chair, AWC Antwerp

The change of the Target Project theme from health to environment necessitates a look at the impact of environmental changes on health. The impact is vast – potentially devastating in many parts of the world. Droughts, flooding, heat waves, water pollution (seas, groundwater and rivers) and air pollution all have outcomes...

What Is Life Like for Women and Girls in Mathare?

by Marelie Manders, Heidelberg IWC

The new FAWCO Target Project, Awesome Blossoms, is a part of the Safe Spaces community-based organization and aims to expand on growing vegetables using hydroponics in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi. What is impressive is that this project addresses a great number of the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8,

Awesome Blossoms: Building Sustainable Life in Nairobi’s Slums through Hydroponic Farming

by Allan C'oredo, Awesome Blossoms Project Manager, and Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam

The world’s population is predicted to grow to nearly 10 billion people by 2050, and the challenge to feed this growing population is magnified by climate change. The sub-Saharan regions of Africa are particularly vulnerable due to persistent drought and poverty.

As croplands dry, people are migrating from...

The Education Team Connects with the Target Project

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland

The Education Team is very excited to support Target Project 5, Awesome Blossoms. There are many overlaps between Sustainable Development Goal 4, which promotes quality education for all, and this environmental Target Project. Over the course of the next year, the Education Team will support the Target Project with articles on subjects such as...

Notes from the Field

by Rainier Sielaff, AWC Finland

At the school where I used to teach (I am an English teacher in Germany), each junior chooses an area of interest, finds and works with a mentor, and embarks on an individual project, which they then document, craft into a thesis paper, and finally present to the school community in the fall of...

Lebanon's Education Crisis

by Monica Jubayli, AWC Lebanon and FAWCO RC 9

One of the most catastrophic economic crises globally in 150 years, exacerbated by the pandemic and the Beirut Port explosion of August 2020, has had a devastating impact on the Lebanese education sector. During the pandemic, as schools switched to online learning, many students could not participate because they had no...