Objetivos e público alvo
It aims to strengthen the operations of the Kapi’wara Collective in the tackling of climate change, focusing in climate justice and in the empowerment of peripheral communities. The priority target groups are Black women and peripheral youths, who will be involved in actions of popular communication, training and land articulation.
Contexto
After the largest flood of the last four decades in 2022, which has left thousands unhoused, the collective has identified the need to strengthen its operations in climate justice, which can only be achieved if there are strategies to fight the environmental racism that pushes the Black and poor populations to the largest risk areas with regards to the climate emergency. The requested resources will be used to elaborate an Institutional Development Plan for the Kapi’wara Association with an emphasis in climate justice, and a Strategic Plan focusing on the theme, as well as conducting a land seminar and actions of popular communication to mobilize the community and pressure the public power.
Sobre a Organização
The Kapi’wara Collective, formed in 2014 in the neighborhood of Várzea (Recife/PE), acts in the promotion of urban agroecology and in the tackling of environmental racism. Since then, it has operated voluntarily in agroecological community actions, community gardens, bioconstructions and social technologies for the treatment of residues. Formalized in 2021, the association develops its own methodologies, such as JEITO (Lands-Organizations Empowerment and Integration Journey), which has resulted in the creation of active community groups. The collective is part of networks such as the National Articulation of Agroecology (ANA) and the National Collective of Urban Agriculture (CNAU), in addition to having partnerships with universities and local organizations.
