Leah Namugerwa

Leah Namugerwa
Born2004 (age 20–21)
NationalityUgandan
OccupationClimate activist

Leah Namugerwa (born 2004) is a youth climate activist in Uganda.[1][2] She is known for leading tree planting campaigns and for starting a petition to enforce the plastic bag ban in Uganda.[1][3][4][2] Following inspiration from Greta Thunberg, she began supporting school strikes in February 2019 with fellow Fridays for the Future Uganda organizer Sadrach Nirere.[1][5][4][6]

Namugerwa spoke at the World Urban Forum in 2020[7] and was a youth delegate at COP25.[8] Her uncle, Tim Mugerwa, is also a prominent environmentalist in Uganda.[1] Leah Namugerwa's is a member of the Anglican Church of Uganda.[8]

Climate activism

Namugerwa heard of Greta Thunberg and her Friday strikes in 2018.[5] She was later inspired to take similar action as Greta Thunberg at 13, after she watched a local news report about mudslides and flooding in rural sections of the country.[1] Namugerwa has since become a prominent young climate advocate and an integral member of Africa's most prominent chapter of Fridays for the Future taking place in Uganda.[5][1] She teamed up with Sadrach Nirere, Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, and her cousin Bob Motavu to birth the Fridays for the Future Uganda. She has been engaged in Friday striking since February 2019, calling for more climate actions, and she has led the writing of a petition to enforce the ban of plastic bags.[1][9]

Namugerwa uses social media to spread the message of how important it is to protect the planet. She takes photos of herself doing positive projects for the environment like planting trees and then posts it. Namugerwa uses her social media power to encourage the youth to regularly plant trees and get involved in activities and projects that help to protect the environment.[10]

Accomplishments

Leah Namugerwa celebrated her 15th birthday by planting 200 trees instead of throwing a birthday party, and since then she has launched the Birthday Trees project, to give out seedlings to those who wish to celebrate their birthdays by planting trees.[7] Her major goal is to see the enforcement of current climate legislation (Paris 21 agreement) and to attract more coverage of issues of climate change.[6] She organized marches along with other young climate advocates to mark the global climate strike on 29 November 2020, and the lakeshore of Kampala's Ggaba Beach was also cleaned to celebrate the day; Dorothy Nalubega, a member of a women's agriculturalist and environmental group was also in attendance.[1] Namugerwa has continuously called on the government of Uganda to fully implement the Paris Climate Agreement.[9]

Current life

Namugerwa continues to fight climate change by planting trees. She also stays busy speaking at climate summits and conferences in Africa and around the world. Namugerwa attended the COP27 Climate Conference in Egypt this year. The United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP27, was the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference held annually for two weeks. The goal is to come together to support climate policies around the world that politicians and the general public can tackle together. Namugerwa spoke during the climate conference on November 7, 2022.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "The young Ugandan woman making waves as she fights climate change". The Independent. 2019-12-28. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  2. ^ a b "Uganda's 14-year-old climate activist". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  3. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Ugandan teen activist championing birthday trees | DW | 15.05.2020". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  4. ^ a b "Leah Namugerwa the Ugandan climate warrior". The Citizen. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  5. ^ a b c "School Strike for Climate: A day in the life of Ugandan student striker Leah Namugerwa". Earth Day. 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  6. ^ a b "Meet Leah Namugerwa: The 15-Year-Old Leading Climate Activism In Uganda". therising.co. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  7. ^ a b "Leah Namugerwa | World Urban Forum". wuf.unhabitat.org. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  8. ^ a b ""It's not too late to join the struggle"– say archbishop and teenage climate activist". www.anglicannews.org. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  9. ^ a b "Leah Namugerwa". Faces of Climate Change. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  10. ^ AfricaNews (April 22, 2021). "16-year old climate activist on mission to replant trees in Uganda". Africanews. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  11. ^ Hirsh, Sophie (2022-11-18). "Now That COP27 Is Over, Here Are the Climate Conference's Highlights — and Lowlights". Green Matters. Retrieved 2022-12-04.


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