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. Reducing Wastage of Energy
Name: Tabassum Akter
Grade-7
Nowadays we see many people are wasting energy around us.
We need to stop wasting energy; many people keep their lights and fan turned on without any reason, can’t we stop doing this? Everyone almost has a car these days but can’t we stop using car and use a cycle instead? Or walk? Or take a rickshaw?
If we can then why are we using cars, buses and trucks? These are harming us instead of helping us, pushing us towards death. So we have to save ourselves and others. We have to make people understand that they should ride a rickshaw or walk instead of using cars. Then we will be healthy, others will be healthy. It is important to save ourselves from these nuisances.