Leaping Boundaries and Climate Tracker: South Asia came together for an initiative to build awareness about climate change and journalistic capacity of 12-15 year old girls in Madinatul Ulum Women's Kamil madrasah. Climate Tracker is the world's largest network of youth journalists focusing on climate change, environment and sustainable development issues. Leaping Boundaries is the only project of it's kind that aims to increase visibility of girls aged 12-15 studying in madrasahs through building their capacity and linking them to platforms where they are typically underrepresented. Themed around World Environment Day, this session informed the girls about the basics of climate change and tips and tricks for writing articles. The aim was to foster understanding, concern and drive among the students of Madinatul Ulum Women's Kamil Madrasah about climate change as well as to encourage them and build their capacity to write articles. Some of the write-ups that were produced by the girls are below. The original work was in Bangla and was translated to English by members of Leaping Boundaries. Climate Change
Name: Afroza Akter
Grade-7
Our country did not have such a weather before but due to increase in factories, burning coal and using increased number of cars carbon dioxide has increased in the air and so temperature is increasing. As a result the polar caps are melting and the sea level is rising. When it rains the countries near the sea drown due to heavy rainfall. Rise in temperature is causing famine and the farmers are facing a huge loss. To prevent such loses, we will have to plant many trees. Also we will use solar power, wind power and hydro energy source. We can prevent all the problem by using renewable energy. We will plant more trees and use cycles or walk to places instead of using transport. And most importantly we will become aware of the problems and we will not waste any energy.