CLIMATE CHANGE SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME IN KWARA, NIGERIA


CLIMATE CHANGE: A PHENOMENON OF YESTERDAY, TODAY OR TOMORROW? 


“Human activity currently releases over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year”

 

Such a surprising data we have there! However, what is more surprising is that most people in Africa do not know this fact. Is it not most surprising that even though most Nigerian secondary school students know what climate is, 99% of them do not know about climate change?

On the 29th of August, 2019 one of our team members at Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD), Miss Muheenat Sheu took the students through the journey of learning about Climate Change. She introduced the course by asking questions on what climate is and what climate change is, among others. Could you believe that none of the students had ever heard of climate change or UN (United Nations)!

Miss Muheenat explained what caused climate change in the ancient times and what causes it in our present world; she defined important terms in climate change, effects of climate change and ways of solving the problems of climate change.

Citing relevant examples from the student’s environment, she explained the ripple effects of Charcoal making. Charcoal, as explained by Miss Muheenat is a product derived from burning of trees. This results in loss of economic trees, lack of shades, and reduction of trees that supposed to break storms. Talking about the effects of climate change, she explained that climate change results in low food production, poverty, deforestation, and health challenges among others. She particularly pinpointed Meningitis disease caused by heat wave as one of the health challenges that increases as a result of climate change.

Discussing the ways of preventing climate change, she preached reduction on the use of fossil fuels and replacing trees that are cut down by planting new ones, among other ways. One of the students however recommended that more public enlightenment on climate change should be done.


Note:
We acknowledge the YALI (Young African Leaders Initiative) network as a source of training materials and as motivation to include this topic in our Summer Lesson Project.



Written by Olanrewaju Rabiu Hanafi



Location: Ilorin, Nigeria

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