FACT SHEET - TRANS AFRICAN CARAVAN OF HOPE

What is the Trans African Caravan of Hope?

The Trans African Climate Caravan of Hope is a road show that will seek to galvanize the cross country stakeholder voices, with an ultimate aim of telling the African story while making known the demand of Africa among its inhabitants and the rest of the world. The Caravan is a huge mobilization and awareness creation opportunity for African civil society to highlight the challenges climate change poses to Africa’s efforts to extricate herself from poverty and attainment of Millennium Development Goals.

   What are the Main Objectives of the Caravan?

   ·    To mobilize and rally together African civil society towards a common advocacy and campaign demands on climate change and climate justice towards United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) – Conference of Parties (COP) 17;

·         To create awareness and build momentum towards UNFCCC- COP17 among African people and the rest of the world;

·         To lobby and pressurize African leaders/policy makers to work together in support of an international climate change treaty that is responsive to the continent’s realities and reality to science;

·         To drum up support for pro-people and just responses to climate change;

·         To share civil society (and African People’s Protocol) perspectives and positions on climate justice with influential political actors, including the African Heads of State.

REMEMBERING PROF. WANGARI MAATHAI

MOI UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH TRANS AFRICAN CARAVAN OF HOPE

COMMEMORATION ACTIVITIES

Pan African Climate Justice Alliance,PACJA, through the Trans African Caravan of Hope is partnering with the Moi University Student Organization and the City Council of Nairobi in activities that will be conducted on Saturday,  29^th October from 9:30am to 2:00 pm within Nairobi Central Business District.

This coming Saturday has been earmarked by Moi University as their Environmental Day. The activities chosen will be in remembrance of Prof Wangari Maathai and the bid to keep her legacy alive. In attendance will be the university’s faculty who will be joined by the PACJA team, led by its continental coordinator, Mithika Mwenda among others. The activities will include:

·         Tree planting around Nairobi  Jeevanjee gardens and other areas;

·         Cleaning of Nairobi markets like the City Market and others;

·         Engage in a massive petition signing that will be tabled in Durban, South Africa to demand for our climate rights during the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change on the 15^th December 2011.

For more information contact PACJA at info@pacja.org