African Women and Climate Change

Women are affected by climate change especially in the area of sanitation, flooding, drought and food security and in many parts of Africa climate change threatens to unravel women's lives as women in rural areas lack knowledge about the imminent dangers posed by climate change.

This pond in Ethiopia may dry up if it doesn't rain soon and the locals will be out of water.

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