OXFAM CLOSEUP - PUSHING BACK AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

In the coming years, the project Saren says the lack of water in the lake, levels and forest, combined with more and more restrictive regulations on intends to reach more than 200,000 attributed to changing rainfall patterns fishing, make it harder and harder for people in the western areas of the Tonle due to climate change, as well as dams Sap Lake basin. [...] I can business making handicrafts has brought her to her daughter who trims the leaves count on my income to meet our needs.” a measure of financial independence, as she off the top and stacks the stalks in the no longer has to only rely on the income her bottom of the boat. [...] FACT, Oxfam, and other partners Many people are reporting that it is increasingly difficult to catch enough fish to support a other goods she sells to tourist shops in in and around Tonle Sap are forming family, and the effects of climate change are eco-tourism committees in picturesque contributing to the lack of fish in the lake. [...] Because in the are the movers and shakers of their officials, and others have helped them climate crisis, the strengths women village—the ones who strengthened plant thousands of mangrove saplings tend to bring to leadership—cooperative the awareness of local officials about at the site. [...] “We have made the community violence-free.” SOMEWHERE TO TURN Many of the women’s groups in the ACT program save money together and make IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS, THE STRENGTHS WOMEN TEND TO loans to one another from their pooled BRING TO LEADERSHIP—COOPERATIVE APPROACHES AND funds.